Last chance to see Hedda Gabler at the Coal Mine, extended to June 9 just as another production of the Ibsen play is about to open in Stratford on May 30. Liisa Repo-Martell adaptation (Moya O’Connell in the director’s chair) slightly tinkers with the text—there are hints here of Hedda having given up a dance career for a respectable, well-financed and propertied life—and I’m not sure it’s an improvement. Constraints on Hedda, if you look at the play, were such that there was no possibility of even imagining a life away from married respectability and motherhood. If I were to pinpoint the source of tragedy in the text, it would be that. She had no other calling except for men: her father the general, her former love(s), her husband. It is indeed
How do you solve a problem like Hedda Gabler
How do you solve a problem like Hedda Gabler
How do you solve a problem like Hedda Gabler
Last chance to see Hedda Gabler at the Coal Mine, extended to June 9 just as another production of the Ibsen play is about to open in Stratford on May 30. Liisa Repo-Martell adaptation (Moya O’Connell in the director’s chair) slightly tinkers with the text—there are hints here of Hedda having given up a dance career for a respectable, well-financed and propertied life—and I’m not sure it’s an improvement. Constraints on Hedda, if you look at the play, were such that there was no possibility of even imagining a life away from married respectability and motherhood. If I were to pinpoint the source of tragedy in the text, it would be that. She had no other calling except for men: her father the general, her former love(s), her husband. It is indeed