Andrew Scott and Ian McDiarmid head 50-strong cast of rarely seen Ibsen play in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Jonathan Kent. Previews from June 9. Booking via National Theatre website: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/tickets Ibsen’s lost masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle-East from AD 351 covering 12 crucial years in the history of civilisation, focusing on Julian, the emperor who attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor Constantius..