My Master Builder review — Ewan McGregor can't save a dodgy Ibsen revamp
The audience at the preview I attended at Wyndham's couldn't resist cheering and applauding, Broadway-style, when the A-lister made his first entrance. Kudos to him, I say, for appearing on a London stage for the first time in nearly 20 years. McGregor doesn't come unstuck anywhere near as badly as Sigourney Weaver did in The Tempest. Yet the truth is that he simply doesn't have the gravitas needed for the role of a superstar architect whose personal
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