Hedda Gabler
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 25, 2009
Closed Mar 29, 2009
Opened Jan 25, 2009
Closed Mar 29, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tony Award winner Mary-Louise Parker stars in a new Broadway production of Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen in a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn. Ian Rickson directs.
Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom.
In Hedda Gabler, the newly-wed Hedda Tesman finds herself bored with married life to her scholar husband, George Tesman. As the daughter of General Gabler, she had grown accustomed to the freedom and exciting social world of her father's home. When her rival, Mrs. Elvsted, reenters her life with Hedda's former lover, Eilert Lovberg in tow, Hedda sets out on a shocking path of destruction that affects the lives of everyone around her.
The cast also includes Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris as Jorgen Tesman, Paul Sparks as Ejlert Lovborg, Peter Stormare as Judge Brack, Lois Markle as Berte, Ana Reeder as Thea Elvsted, and Helen Carey as Juliane Tesman.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Twenty-first Century Hedda?
Saw the Saturday 1/31 8PM show and was taken aback by the absence of Ibsens dark humor thats in this play but didnt make it onto the stage. Tesman should have been comically pretentious, but Cerveris played him as neurotic and self-effacing. Hedda is such a deliciously layered character with mask upon mask, but Ms. Parker - try though she might - played her so low key and without much variety, that I had to read the program article to get a hint as to what shed intended to put on the stage. The wonderful film actor Peter Stormares boots got in the way he kept shifting on his feet all evening and he lacked the bloated self-importance called for by Judge Brack. Mr. Sparks Lovborg - a theatrical rogue if there ever was one - was flaccid, angry, and played with very few interesting notes.
All in all, it appears that Ian Rickson threw out what he must have felt was well-trod convention in favor of...what, Im not sure, for an interesting vision was not present on the boards.
Reviewed by SROnly
on Monday, Feb 2nd, 2009
response to It's Hedda Dry by boom3r
Considering that you saw an early preview, your comments seem irresponsible. Ill wait to judge after theyve had a chance to settle into the roles - or open - whichever comes first!
Reviewed by debisule
on Saturday, Jan 24th, 2009
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Henrik Ibsen's mercurial, destructive, and ultimately self-destructive Hedda Gabler is the modern-day actress' equivalent of Hamlet, sending out her siren call to stars far and wide. The latest luminary to answer is Mary-Louise Parker, whose bracing portrayal of this fascinating anti-heroine is the raison d'etre of the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of
Hedda Gabler, directed by Ian Rickson and featuring a new, contemporary translation by Christopher Shinn.
Hedda, the slightly haughty, proper General's daughter, has entered into an unhappy marriage with academic Jorgen Tesman (Michael Cerveris). Just back from her numbing six-month wedding trip, Hedda's already troubled existence quick[...]