Simon Russell Beale is the unapologetically corrupt banker, in Ibsen's chilly tragicomedy It always feels special when a play speaks so directly to an audience that you feel and hear the ripples of recognition across the auditorium. And when disgraced banker John Gabriel Borkman roars that, "There are different rules for exceptional people", on London's South Bank, it's a brilliant reminder of Ibsen's uncanny prescie…
