What I liked
Again a great ensemble and a great design. A solid director’s eye shapes this beast of a show into an accessible and engaging piece of theater.
What I didn't like
You made Ibsen understandable, clear and accessible in 2023 –
What else do you need to do?
My overall impression
It’s Ibsen. Ibsen distilled down to a lean 90 minutes of ennui, boredom, sadness and a general malaise and dissatisfaction with the world as it is. Under McAfee’s stripped down telling these characters are completely volitional, no extra hour and a half of buried plot and intention, it all right out front. Great performances by Madelynn Fattibene as Julianna, Tyler Bremer as Lovburg, Conor Murphy as Brack and Meg Cashel as Hedda who delivers dead pan daggers in a constant state of ennui, sadness, harboring a great dissatisfaction with the world as it is and her circumstance in it. Hedda Gabler is a tragedy to be sure with her her fixation on doing the beautiful thing properly refusing to allow anyone to have power over her.
