The Lady from the Sea
Adapted by Elinor Cook
Writer
Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by
Elinor Cook
Director
Dawn Walton
Location
The Linbury Studio
Dates
Saturday 30 November at 7:15pm
Monday 2 December at 7:15pm
Tuesday 3 December at 2:15pm
Tuesday 3 December at 7:15pm*
Wednesday 4 December at 7:15pm
*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.
The running time is approximately 1 hour 40 mins (no interval).
About the show
Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper's daughter, is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea. When a former lover returns from years of absence, she is forced to decide between freedom and the new life she has made for herself.
Relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s, Elinor Cook's version of Henrik Ibsen's shattering 1888 play explores duty and self-determination.
With more than 20 years in the industry Dawn began her directing career at the Royal Court Theatre. She is Founder, and former Artistic Director and Chief Executive, of Eclipse Theatre, the UK's principal Black-led national production company. In 2020, Dawn was awarded the OBE for services to Theatre.
Theatre includes: The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead Theatre); Antigone (Mercury Theatre); The Gift (Eclipse Theatre / Belgrade Theatre / Theatre Royal Stratford East); salt (Schaubühne / Public Theater / Royal Court / Summerhall / Theatre Bristol / Yorkshire Festival); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland / EIF / HOME); Black Men Walking (Eclipse Theatre / Royal Court / Royal Exchange / UK Tour).
Nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best New Play and Writer’s Guild Award for Best Play); The Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / UK Tour); A Raisin in the Sun (Eclipse Theatre / Crucible Theatre / UK Tour, nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre / Tricycle Theatre / UK Tour); Jonzi D - Lyrikal Feata: The Letter (Sadler’s Wells); The Hounding of David Oluwale (Eclipse Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse, nominated for TMA Award for Best Director); Oxford Street (nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre).
Television: salt (Performance Director for BBC 4).
Film: Samuels Trousers; 10by10 – series of 10 original short film dramas.
Radio/Podcasts: The Last Flag – BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama; White Open Spaces – six original short audio dramas.
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder.
Elinor Cook is a playwright whose work includes: a version of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (Donmar Warehouse, 2017); Out of Love (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd/Orange Tree tour, 2017); Pilgrims (HighTide/Theatr Clwyd/The Yard, 2016); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre, London, 2015); and The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (HighTide, 2014).
She was the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2013.
Contains themes of illness/death and child loss, and brief references to drowning, eating disorder, mental health, murder and suicide.
This amateur production of “The Lady from the Sea” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
Booking
Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.
Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office on [email protected]
Pricing and concessions
Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.
Accessibility
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Booking your tickets
Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500.
Industry booking
If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets.
Ticket collection for in-person tickets
There is no need to collect tickets. You will be ticked off an attendance list on arrival.
Refunds
Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.
Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Dawn Walton*
Designer
Finlay Jenner*
Voice Director
Gurkiran Kaur*
Movement Director
Rhys Dennis*
Fight Director
Sam Lyon-Behan*
Costume Supervisor
Tabitha Stock*
Wardrobe Assistant
Katie Kelson*
Producer
Rebecca Lyle*
Lighting Designer / Prod Lx
Ace Turner
Sound Designer / PSE
Chloe Wood
Intimacy Director
Sam Goodchild*
Video Production Designer
Avery Elliot*
Cast
The Stranger
Jaylon Bolden
Doctor Wangel
Samuel Ferrer
Bolette
Emily Hayman
Arnholm
Alasdair Linn
Hilde
Natalia May
Ellida
Gloria Olajide
Ballestred
Kofi Odoom
Lyngstrand
James Walsh
Production Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Stage Manager on the Book
Mia Stubbings*
Assistant Stage Managers
Indianah Raymond
Ash Vaughan
Production Manager
Amelia Thorpe