It is also rarely revived but Ian Rickson’s breathtaking production does justice to its passion and politics, and boasts stellar performances from Hayley Atwell and Tom Burke.
Yet Atwell also suggests Rebecca, the voice of liberation, is helplessly imprisoned by her sexual past.
They richly deliver on Shaw’s notion of “the deep black flood of feeling from the first moment to the last”.
Written by Ibsen in 1886, the play has echoes of its immediate predecessors.