A year of classical makeovers has so far seen Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge staged in jeans and T-shirts, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya done with mobile phones, Shakespeare’s Henry IV in a women’s prison and Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People relocated to an apartment in twenty-first-century Germany.The last of those – in an adaptation by the Schaubühne Berlin – was part of the international Ibsen season at the Barbican in London, which concluded with another contemporary updating: a version of the 1884 domestic drama, The Wild Duck, translated by the Belvoir St Theatre of Sydney to ­present-day Australia.Whereas An Enemy of the People, being a story of corporate mismanagement and ­whistle-blowing, responds easily to historical fast-forw