The week in theatre: A Very Expensive Poison; A Doll's House; Hedda Tesman " review | Susannah Clapp
Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Minerva, Chichester Lucy Prebble's take on the Litvinenko murder swivels brilliantly between tragedy and farce, while Ibsen's women still have much to say to a divided societyA spotlit Vladimir Putin leans out from a theatre box, implacable, scornful. A giant golden phallus rears up on stage. Handprints made luminous by radiation glow along the side of the proscenium arch. And a wo…