Give the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen a domestic setting and it’s sure he would’ve returned with a drama that checked all the boxes of playmaking: marriage, desire, loss, rebirth and freedom.

More than a century after the publication of Ibsen’s “The Lady From the Sea,” the play is coming back to the stage once again, this time at London’s Bridge Theatre with Academy Award-winning actor Alicia Vikander taking the role of Ellida Wangel and Andrew Lincoln as her husband, Dr. Edvard Wangel.

The play, first published 136 years ago, is loosely based on the classic Scandinavian ballad of a woman leaving her life behind to live in the sea with a merman she’s fallen in love with. She returns to land one day and starts to contemplate if she’s made the right choice — in some versions she s

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