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...writing in response to the review of Hedda Gabler by Benjamin J. Soskin ’06 (Arts, “Review: ‘Hedda?? Fueled by Destruction,” April 26). I would like to inform everyone that both the production of Hedda Gabler and, crucially, Hedda herself were as good as Soskin’s review was ill-conceived. I will not go over the excellent plot of the play itself; instead I would like to present an unmitigated rejection of Soskin’s review of the performance of Rebecca J. Levy...
...similes, Soskin would have done better had he reviewed all of the actors’ performances. Given the small size of the cast, it seems unjust to devote to four out of the seven characters a mere five lines. Daniel J. Wilner ’07, who played Hedda??s husband, certainly deserves more notice—his acting was so genuine that it was impossible to believe he was acting at all. The performance by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 of the mousy Mrs. Elvsted was an impressive escalation from uncertainty through fear to panic...
...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 to take place along the path to the final horror...
...passionate hellion whose life as a new wife is studded with geniuses, bores and powermongers. There is her husband (Daniel J. Wilner ’07), an eager lunkhead academic; his delicate aunt (Megan E.M. Low ’04); a former schoolmate of Hedda??s (Mary E. Birnbaum ’07); and a primly lecherous judge (Jess R. Burkle ’06). These figures spend the first half of the play manipulating each other to the extent their respective brain sizes permit, with Hedda??s capriciousness as the only uncertain variable in their...
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