My Master Builder review — Ewan McGregor can't save a dodgy Ibsen revamp
This is going to be a test of faith for Ewan McGregor's admirers. How much are they willing to endure to see him in the flesh in a painfully windy psychodrama, modelled on Ibsen's The Master Builder, which grinds its way to a wildly implausible conclusion?
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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