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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the play takes place in the Ekdal apartment, a modest but comfortably homelike apartment of which we see only the kitchen and studio. Here Hjalmer rules as king, with a devoted wife (Karen MacDonald) and adoring daughter Hedvig (Emma Roberts) who lavish their care on him and serve him almost slavishly. Here, too, his aged father (Jerome Kilty) can forget his disgrace in alcohol--when he can get it. There is a storeroom which he has converted into a small forest with a few pine trees and some rabbits, where he can relive his days as a great...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brustein and Rochaix 'Duck' the Pathos In New Production | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...force of simple virility that he himself lacks. Stephen Rowe throws a downright spooky cast on to the character's obsession with Hjalmer and the Ekdal family--and the wild duck, its most obvious metaphor. Even down-to-earth, matter-of-fact Gina Ekdal, somewhat heavily played by Karen MacDonald, shows signs of guilt and unease about her past, despite her assertions to the contrary. Hedvig, with her luminous innocence and child's intuition, is the one truly pure and simple character in the ensemble--and is therefore doomed...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brustein and Rochaix 'Duck' the Pathos In New Production | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...pipelines will also pass through areas traditionally controlled by the Karen and Mon minority groups, both of which have denounced the project. One recent report by the Thailand-based EarthRights International and Southeast Asian Information Network suggests that the SLORC's persecution of the ethnic minorities might put the environment at further risk, using "such environmental harms as watershed destruction and deforestation as strategic tools by which to further disempower opponents of the regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texaco Is No Innocent Abroad | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...Reported by James Carney and Karen Tumulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S POWER DIET | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...disaster then struck in the form of Maine's Karen Hebert, who tied the game at one and sent the game into sudden death overtime...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Field Hockey Loses in ECAC Finals, 2-1 | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

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