Over 17 years on from his last UK stage outing – with a Broadway Stoppard revival his only other theatre action in the interim – Ewan McGregor returns to the stage in 2025, reunited with Michael Grandage, the director of Guys & Dolls and Othello, the two Donmar Warehouse shows the Scots actor did at the height of his Star Wars fame.
My Master Builder is a new play, or rather a new spin on an old play, being up and coming US playwright Lila Raicek’s reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder. Like many of Ibsen’s works, the 1892 drama could reasonably be described as ‘proto-feminist’ without quite being ‘feminist’ – one suspects Raicek is liable to tease the #MeToo implications out of this story of an architect whose world is rocked by the appearance of a young women who says he propositioned her in the past. You might further guess that Raicek may have jettisoned some of the dreamlike symbolism that mark Ibsen’s original – all will be revealed in 2025.
