Oscar winner Alicia Vikander returns to stage after 17 years

There's a beardown accidental you volition person seen Alicia Vikander connected surface successful the past decade, acknowledgment to performances successful films specified arsenic Tomb Raider, Ex Machina and her Oscar-winning relation successful The Danish Girl.

One spot you won't person seen her during that time, however, is connected stage.

The Swedish histrion hasn't appeared successful the theatre for 17 years, erstwhile she was a teenager. But that's astir to change.

Vikander volition prima successful a caller West End accumulation of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, which volition besides beryllium her UK theatre debut.

Speaking to BBC News, Vikander, 36, said she was "thrilled" to beryllium returning to the stage, but added it was a "daunting happening to do... it's my archetypal clip connected signifier arsenic an adult".

The accumulation volition play astatine London's Bridge Theatre for 8 weeks from 10 September, organisers announced connected Wednesday.

"I grew up being astatine the theatre a lot, my parent [Maria Fahl] was a signifier actress, and I deliberation adjacent erstwhile I was dreaming of becoming an histrion myself, being connected signifier was the travel that I benignant of visualised," Vikander said.

"Back successful Sweden, wherever I'm from, if you're an histrion past truly what you are is connected stage. And you're fortunate to possibly person a TV amusement oregon movie each mates of years, due to the fact that that's however tiny the manufacture is successful Sweden.

"So I deliberation that's what I ever saw successful beforehand of me. And past beingness happened, and passim the years [theatre] has ever been thing I've been waiting for and reasoning 'it volition happen'."

The play has been adapted and directed by Simon Stone, and volition besides prima The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln.

Vikander volition play pb quality Ellida, the sea-loving girl of a lighthouse-keeper.

Ellida is joined to a Norwegian doctor, but erstwhile a sailor she utilized to beryllium engaged to abruptly returns, she is forced to take betwixt her existent and erstwhile lover.

The play marks the instauration of the quality Hilde Wangel, 1 of the doctor's daughters from a erstwhile marriage.

Hilde goes connected to look successful 1 of Ibsen's aboriginal plays, The Master Builder, a caller adaptation of which is coincidentally besides presently successful the West End, starring Ewan McGregor.

An adaptation of different Ibsen play, Enemy of the People, opened successful London past twelvemonth starring Doctor Who histrion Matt Smith.

Director Stone has antecedently helmed films specified arsenic The Dig and The Daughter, portion his extended theatre credits see productions of Yerma, Phaedra, Medea and Angels successful America.

"He erstwhile again is going to instrumentality a classical and reinvent it and marque it beryllium thing that is relatable to our modern assemblage today," Vikander said.

"And erstwhile I was told helium was doing Ibsen and The Lady from the Sea, I conjecture that going backmost to my Scandinavian and Swedish heritage, it benignant of felt similar a cleanable match."

Vikander said she felt the crushed galore of the classics are inactive being performed successful the West End is they tackle galore of the aforesaid subjects nine inactive grapples with today.

"I person discussions with my friends, I conscionable passed 35, I'm getting adjacent to my 40s soon and I person my kids, but I inactive consciousness highly young. Really young. Sometimes I'm like, 'I'm 25 still!'

"But past I besides realise I'm entering this precise caller section which is truly exciting, but I deliberation if you are successful a spot wherever you consciousness similar you haven't fulfilled definite dreams oregon tried things, you're inactive wondering wherever these choices oregon enactment would person led you, past I deliberation it's highly quality thing.

"Women passim past person been held back, possibly due to the fact that they didn't person the aforesaid opportunities, oregon they financially couldn't bash immoderate things, oregon ended up successful situations wherever it was harder to interruption distant from the relation of being a mother.

"So truthful erstwhile I work it, I consciousness similar I wholly recognize the turmoil this pistillate goes through, and I don't deliberation humans person changed that overmuch from a core, affectional constituent of view. And I deliberation that's wherefore we're funny successful these stories."

She added: "It's unthinkable that the large cosmopolitan questions are thing we're inactive battling successful the aforesaid way."

Vikander said she was "super excited and wonderfully nervous" to statesman the workshopping process with Stone successful the coming weeks, retired of which helium volition statesman to nutrient the last script.

As the amusement is inactive being developed, it has not yet been confirmed what the mounting volition beryllium for this production.

Another UK adaptation of The Lady from the Sea performed successful 2017 astatine the Donmar Theatre moved the communicative to the Caribbean successful the 1950s.

The caller adaptation is billed arsenic her UK signifier debut, but Vikander notes it's really her archetypal theatre of immoderate benignant since she was 19.

"I did theatre for my teens for a batch of years, similar a kid actor, and past the past happening I did was erstwhile I was a dancer for the Stockholm Opera House," she explained.

"I grew up watching my parent doing theatre, and I 'd ever ticker from afar, and I can't hold to effort and bash it myself.

"It's a daunting happening to do, obviously, it's my archetypal clip connected signifier arsenic an adult, and it's connected the London stage, and evidently I privation to marque definite radical get their summons money's worth! But I'm truly excited."