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...integrate the other characters as complex personalities in their own right. There is Hedda's bumbling, self-important husband George Tesman; his well-meaning spinster aunt; the gifted and unbalanced Eilert Lovborg; the parasitically devoted Thea Elvsted Hedda's rival as Lovborg's muse; and the suave dissolute Judge Brack, whose cynical attempt to blackmail Hedda precipitates her defiant suicide...
Trevor Nunn, who directed the stage production, moves it in front of the cameras with all the care of a fussy kid transporting a dollhouse. He treats his actors similarly. Peter Eyre as Tesman, the scholarly husband Hedda holds in contempt; Timothy West as Brack, a local magistrate of flexible morality; Patrick Stewart as Lovborg, a raucous genius and former lover of Hedda's; and Jennie Linden as a woman who idolizes him and stirs Hedda's jealousy-all are like windup toys that can be counted on to repeat the same tricks over and over. Nunn...
Timid Soul. Her one imperious achievement of the evening is to act as if she were the only person onstage. Since she delivers her part of the dialogue like nightclub one-liners, she might as well be alone. As Hedda's sinister admirer Judge Brack, Timothy West is as sensually menacing as a puff of cigar smoke. If Patrick Stewart's Luvborg has "vine leaves in his hair," they are not Greek but plastic. As Hedda's husband, a timid soul and a baffled marital masochist who dotes on books, Peter Eyre salvages the only acting honors...
...Cover: Top photograph by LIFE'S Larry Burrows. Lower picture by Dennis Brack, Black Star...
...from a danger that stirred her inner being to a safety that curdles her inner being. Lovborg has since found a new muse, Thea Elvsted (Anne Fielding), a married woman far inferior to Hedda in intellect but considerably more pliant sexually. Tesman's friend, the somewhat sinister Judge Brack (Aldo Bonura), enters this tangled web with the motive of exploiting some of Hedda's smoldering needs. Each helps to weave her doom...