My Master Builder
Closing: July 12, 2025My Master Builder - 2025 West End History , Info & More
Wyndham's Theatre
(Leicester Square) Charing Cross Road London
On the eve of July 4th in the Hamptons, Elena Solness, a publishing magnate, is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her architect husband, Henry Solness, as he unveils his latest masterpiece. Their already vulnerable union is shattered by the unexpected arrival of Mathilde, a former student of Henry’s, with whom he previously shared an intimate connection. As the evening unfolds, each find themselves face to face with a reckoning that indelibly tilts the axis of their lives.
Inspired by Ibsen, My Master Builder is a startling new play by Lila Raicek that lays bare the vulnerabilities we expose, when we leave ourselves open to love.
Ewan McGregor returns to the London stage, reuniting with director Michael Grandage, to lead the company of Lila Raicek’s new play My Master Builder.
__Assisted performances__
Captioned Performance - Saturday 24 May 2025 at 2:30pm
Audio Described Performance - Saturday 14 June 2025 at 2:30pm
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Ewan McGregor struggles to animate My Master Builder
4 / 10
But timely as all this is, the situation feels oddly contrived and the dialogue often stiff and airless. McGregor suggests that Henry’s confident exterior is undermined by grief and remorse, but he struggles to animate some cloying lines. “You were like this brilliant beam of light in the dark tunnel of my life,” he says at one point. Another character talks of someone “undressing you with his eyes” — the sort of cliché that should have vanished with the first draft. And then there is Mathilde herself, who is expanded from the original and played with immense poise by Elizabeth Debicki, but still feels more like an idea than a person.
A night to remember for the wrong reasons
4 / 10
It always raises eyebrows when a writer with no playwrighting experience gets to make their debut in the West End, and with such a starry cast. Lila Raicek may hold an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, but her script is clunky and expositional at best. Lines such as “you look too beautiful to be real” should have been removed after the first draft and lead to several episodes of unintentional laughter from the audience.
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by Stephi Wild - April 30, 2025
Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Fleetwood, David Ajala, Mirren Mack, and Ewan McGregor are leading My Master Builder at Wyndham's Theatre. Check out photos here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 30, 2025
On the eve of July 4th in the Hamptons, Elena Solness, a publishing magnate, is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her architect husband, Henry Solness, as he unveils his latest masterpiece. Their already vulnerable union is shattered by the unexpected arrival of Mathilde, a former student of Henry’s, with whom he previously shared an intimate connection. As the evening unfolds, each find themselves face to face with a reckoning that indelibly tilts the axis of their lives.
by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 30, 2025
Michael Grandage's My Master Builder is billed as a reinvention of Ibsen's play of almost the same name through a modern, female lens. A rich story with themes of control, power, and the search for validation, featuring a host of stars of stage and screen. What could go wrong? Quite a lot as it happens.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 1, 2025
Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Fleetwood, David Ajala, Mirren Mack, and Ewan McGregor will star in My Master Builder - a new play by American playwright and screenwriter Lila Raicek. Get a first look at rehearsal photos here!
by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2025
Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Fleetwood, David Ajala, and Mirren Mack join Ewan McGregor to complete the cast of My Master Builder - a new play by American playwright and screenwriter Lila Raicek.
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