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...audience, director Robyn Nevin gives the lithe film star room to prowl. A new adaptation by Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, which splices up Ibsen's acerbic dialogue as if in a Robert Altman movie, keeps things brisk and tense. And Blanchett plays Hedda - whose dalliance with old flame Lovborg (Aden Young) brings her under scrutiny by family friend Judge Brack (Hugo Weaving) - as neither victim nor villain, but rather as a kind of classy control freak. This most un-neurotic of actresses makes Hedda's animal instinct transparent. You can see her thinking...
This same statement could be made of the character Eilert Lovborg, played by John C. Dewis, who is also being tortured by extreme mental agony; and the fact that Dewis, though for the most part convincing, has been known to lose his intensity and improvise his lines brings into question the fervor of Soskin’s admiration for his performance. However, Soskin’s exaggerated praise of Dewis is not nearly as offensive as his unnecessary delving into Rebecca Levy’s past. When writing a review one ought to keep one’s focus...
Then, just before intermission, a catalytic gale blows in a tousled malcontent called Lovborg (John C. Dewis). He’s brilliant, he’s wry and he’s long been nursing a passion for Hedda. And when he and Hedda butt heads, they touch off a string of events with uniformly tragic consequences...
It’s hard to overstate how good Dewis is in this show. Part of his greatness comes from his role; Lovborg is a tortured, fiery soul who draws audience empathy like iron filings to a magnet. But there’s more to Dewis’ turn than that; he hinted at a talent for understatement in Roberto Zucco earlier this season, and here he makes good on that promise. His performance is restrained, but neither bland nor mannered; it’s unpredictable and insightful, but never unrealistic or ill-defined. He did have a habit...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to toss lines off with Wildean abandon serves only to mar the gravity of his character...