Word: gablers
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...with great feeling of pleasure that this department hands in a minority report on "Hedda Gabler" which the Copley Players labored faithfully to reproduce yesterday afternoon. It is particularly unsatisfactory to discredit a move towards higher dramatic art, but "Hedda Gabler" was made rather for the genius of one great actress, than for the honest efforts of a stock company. It needs that spark of power to carry it across...
Years ago Nazimova scored an astonishing success in this part, and after her have come many lesser steps to tread in her footsteps, but when one sees it, one can't help wondering how "Hedda Gabler" could ever be a popular vehicle. In the first place it is far too long for the stiff-backed seats of a theatre, taking over four hours in presentation. Moreover the incidents are thin and the action slight. Thirdly one feels continually that Ibsen is speaking from the stage and not from life, for his characters have a stilted unnatural manner of expressing themselves...
...impossible to commend this presentation of "Hedda Gabler" as anything that will meet with much appreciation, but it is possible to commend the daring and skill of a stock company which will try Ibsen and get away passably with...
...Starting in February, we will abandon all 'popular' or commercial plays, and put on such productions as 'Hedda Gabler,' 'The Three Sisters,' 'The Veil of Contempt,' and 'A Grain of Mustard Seed...
...name of such a man as Hilaire Belloe, for instance, was the subject of much conflict of opinion. He was characterized impartially as an American lawyer, an Irish novelist, an American poetess, and a French pugilist. Even such a literary figure as Henrik Ibsen had his "Hedda Gabler" described as an insect...