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Hedda Gabler by HENRIK IBSEN...
...trivializes every major scene in the play. When she feeds the manuscript of Eilert's book to the flames, Ibsen has her say, "I am burning your baby." Jackson gives the line the emotional urgency of someone tossing away old telephone bills into the wastebasket. When she takes her own life with her father's pistol, it should be a stark and moving epiphany. Jackson makes it seem like a one-minute ad campaign for stricter gun control...
Peer Gynt is one of Ibsen's more difficult plays, outside the genre of the "problem" play about society and dealing with different, larger(?) issues. Long, uncompromising, and rewarding. Directed by the talented professional Peter Frisch. At the Loeb mainstage tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...DOLL'S HOUSE by HENRIK IBSEN...
...early on, one must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance...