Two more nights and two more entirely different productions: Ibsen’s Little Eyolf on Wednesday, and Guys and Dolls on Thursday. What’s Little Eyolf? I hear you say. There’s a reason you may not have heard of it before: it’s not first-rate Ibsen. I so wanted to like the Almeida’s production, directed by Richard Eyre, since I found his version of Ibsen’s Ghosts stunning when I saw it two years ago. The familiar Ibsen themes are present: dark undercurrents tearing a family apart, suggestions of incest, a wife’s simmering resentments, and, of course, a rat woman who shows up to rid the house of “things that bite and gnaw.” Well, that last one, the rat woman, was new to me. And she certainly brought a welcome contrast to Little Eyolf’s repressed family, though she did rather hit
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