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When Henrik Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler, he created characters whose psychologies would push them ever closer to destruction as the play progressed. Chekhov said that if a gun is onstage in the first act, it will go off in the last act; Ibsen is so bent on his characters?? destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction...
That precision, for better and worse, pervades the play’s new Loeb Ex staging, which opened on Friday and runs through this Saturday. There’s precision in its characters?? affected mannerisms, split-second swivels of mood and stuffy social conventions; there’s artful precision in the slow pacing of its lighting changes. The play is a Swiss watch, and the Ex production exposes its grinding, churning gears for all to see: audience members box in the action on three sides, and the set—decorated with glass, sheer fabrics and transparent...
...captures and1 breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through all these stages with apt restraint and sufficient fervor. Hanley’s Proctor stands tall among the men of the town, a clear-eyed beacon of sanity and hard-working goodness. Hanley maintains his characters?? moral fiber even as he breaks down and signs his confession...
...with far more powerful scenes than Vol. 1: when a tied-up Beatrix must wrap her lips around a flashlight, the degrading image is worth more than any moment in the first volume. Here Tarantino employs the same technique as in Reservoir Dogs, where he subtly focused on his characters?? ears before slicing one off in the end. It’s a cruel trick, but a crafty one—and proof that Tarantino plays more than lip service to the art of film...
Considering her scientific origins, Atwood’s approach to writing is appropriately methodical. “I use graph paper,” she says and begins by making charts showing the characters?? ages. She then researches their lifespans by finding headlines from old newspapers, as she did for The Blind Assassin, which was set in the first half of the 20th century...