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People already tend to know only about the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindbert and Kaut Hamsun, but there is still room for study, Mitchell says. "Along with Ibsen, [Strindberg's work] is the most over-researched area of my field, although there are nuggets yet to be discovered...
Still to come this season are two formidable challenges for the Guthrie and its audience alike. One is Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better...
...Fatal Attraction converted you to misogyny, going to see Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler will have you cursing the female sex ad infinitum. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is not the kind of girl you'd want to be set on a blind date with. She's the kind of girl who plays with fire, firearms to be more precise. She's a psycho killer. Qu'est-ce que c'est?! If you dare to find out, go see her in action this weekend at the Lowell House...
...Hedda, played here by Holly Cate, is never a bore to watch. Cate portrays Hedda with proportionate coldness, but wisely refrains from histrionics. Hedda's fury isn't the tumultuous kind of a Lady Macbeth or a Medea. In her appropriately antiseptic delivery, Cate invokes the quiet strength of Ibsen's heroine...
...means is Ibsen's Hedda Gabler a mellow mood piece. It ought to leave you in a state of shock, for as the last line of the play states, "Normal people don't do such things...