The Lady from the Sea is high-wire event theatre – and Alicia Vikander, Andrew Lincoln and Joe Alwyn deliver brain-bendingly brilliant performances

Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander in Simon Stone’s The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge theatre Johan PerssonOscar-winner Alicia Vikander and screen veteran Andrew Lincoln blithely agreed to Australian writer-director Simon Stone’s high-wire take on Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, a commitment etched on posters and theatre listings, before they even knew what it would entail. Of course, at its heart, would be Ibsen’s 1888 classic, but the rest of it, the present day reworking, would come to life in the rehearsal space when Simon Stone began writing the script. It’s his proven formula to zing up the classics. Could they be the next phenomenon? Tatler meets the woman with London’s theatreland at her fingertips