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...WILD DUCK. The destruction wrought by an integrity that is more cruel than compassionate is the theme of Henrik Ibsen's drama about a determined idealist who enters a household that is constructed on compromise and held together by gentle illusions. Played competently by the APA repertory company...
...WILD DUCK. The destruction wrought by an integrity that is more cruel than compassionate is the theme of Henrik Ibsen's drama about a determined idealist who enters a household that is constructed on compromise and held together by gentle illusions. Played competently, if not brilliantly, by the APA repertory company...
...WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light...
...Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...Henrik Ibsen once observed that in seafaring Norway "everyone ought to be ready to take the helm." Norwegians take Ibsen at his word. With a population of only 3,700,000, Norway has 372 shipping lines and accounts for 10% of all the merchant ships at sea. Aiming for an even greater share of what is elsewhere considered a depressed indus try, the aggressive Norwegians have ordered, at a cost of $1.1 billion, nearly 20% of all the new merchant vessels under construction throughout the world...