Lyn Gardner

The sound of Nora slamming the door on the marital home in Ibsen’s 1879 play, 'A Doll’s House', has echoed down the decades.

Florencia Cordeu was just a year old when her family fled the Argentinian dictatorship in 1976. For many years while in exile, in the days before Skype and Facetime, Cordeu’s family communicated with those they left behind in Argentina by sending and receiving cassette tapes.

There is no doubt about it, Ian Rickson’s revival of Uncle Vanya in a new adaptation by Conor McPherson is quality stuff.