Theatre preview: A Doll's House, Bath

Ibsen's great play has not dated a jot. There's something so wonderfully plastic about it that, although it appears to be set very specifically in 19th-century Norway, it works when transposed to other settings. Peter Hall's production starring Catherine McCormack and Finbar Lynch won't take liberties, and the play's radical stance won't be disguised either. A contemporary critic said that it was like "dropping a bomb on contemporary life". It's a comment that's as true now as it was in 1879.