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Considering that Hedda Gabler is one of the great character portraits in all of drama, it is amazing how stiflingly unanimous critical opinion and acting theory have been about her. For decade after decade, there has been one Hedda, with only minor variations. This Hedda has been a malevolent vampire, a caged prisoner of boredom, a raging neurasthenic. Now, in an off-off-Broadway production by a group called the Opposites Company, there is a new Hedda Gabler, not only beautifully performed, but deeply and subtly thought through in terms that make it peculiarly relevant to the psychic and psychological...
...their own. Students who play in rock groups but who either don't want to grow long hair or are prevented by school regulations from doing so find that pop-on wigs are essential. "We wouldn't be hired if we looked cleancut and normal," says Don Gabler, a Brooklyn College senior who plays in a trio known as The Brooklyn Dodgers. "The minute we stop playing," adds fellow Dodger Elliott Dombroff, "the wigs come...
Rubek speaks for a disillusioned Ibsen. The occasional awkwardness of When We Dead Awaken and the bitterness of its themes have a common source. Its anguish is the pessimism of a 71-year-old dramatist who would never compose another Master-Builder or Hedda Gabler. When We Dead Awaken is not a fitting conclusion to Ibsen's career. Especially in the third act, set on a mountain peak, Ibsen resorts to artificial contrivances that are not characteristic...
...Generals is basically a detective story, and a good one. A prostitute is found brutally stabbed to death in wartime Warsaw; a witness claims to have seen a German general leaving her apartment. Major Grau of the Abwehr narrows the suspects down to three: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, a cautious, ineffectual commanding officer representing the Prussian military tradition; Major General Kahlenberge, his able and acerb chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Tanz, the dashing leader of the Nibelungen (Special Operations) Division. But Major Grau is reassigned, and does not resume his investigation until 1944--two years later--when, with...
Building on this plot, Herr Kirst offers a satirical view of life in the upper echelons of the Wehrmacht as he follows the efforts of von Seydlitz-Gabler's wife to marry their daughter, Ulrike, to Tanz. Ulrike is in love with Lance Corporal Hartmann, who is being kept under cover after inadvertently surviving a skirmish that the German press, for propaganda purposes, reported as an atrocious slaughter. And Hartmann is a young naif (of the sort that seems obligatory in a German anti-war novel) who serves, in his pacifistic innocence, as an effective exponent of the author...