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Hedda Gabler review " Ibsen's drama is frozen in time

by Helen Meany

Abbey theatre, DublinAnnabelle Comyn's staging of this drama of marital suffocation is so cool and controlled that it becomes almost inertIn Mark O'Rowe's new version of Ibsen's 1890 drama, the dialogue sounds like an overheard telephone conversation. "Right." "Sure." "OK." "Christ." "Bye."Pared back, lucid, sometimes blunt, it is uttered by characters wearing impeccably tailored 19th-century dress. In Annabelle Comy…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:48am on December 13, 2016