Hedda
From: Wednesday, 3rd February 2010
To: Sunday, 14 February 2010
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Synopsis
Hedda returns from her honeymoon, feeling increasingly discontent. Something is brewing, and when a school friend turns up with news of an old acquaintance, a string of emotions are unleashed. The consequences are devastating.
Our Review:
8 February 2010
A lone chair surrounded by a sea of screwed-up paper – the reviewer’s lot. The actor’s too, in this misconceived production of Ibsen’s psychological masterpiece, as Hedda Gabler’s passions and complexities are reduced to the absurdity of six actors walking in circles round a battered old carver.
Director Terje Tveit believes that the British theatre is too conservative, too resistant to experimentation. Well, it depends where he chooses to look. For every Richard Eyre-directed John Gabriel Borkman, a 1996 NT production he much disliked (as did I), there is a Polly Teale with her insightful, expressionistic take on A Doll’s House (Shared Experience, 2000). As for conservatism, tell that to Mitchell, McBurney, Barrett or Goold. Tveit’s thesis is nonsense; there is no resistance to experimentation in our theatre, only to rubbish.
Scarred by her upbringing as the daughter of a military general, stifled by th...
Latest User Review
claire - 8 February 2010:
totally agree, is there a fringe company who can do an exciting passionate version?...
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Terje Tveit (based on Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen) (Translation)
Ibsen Stage Company (Company)
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