Windfall's `Hedda Gabler' about as captivating as they come

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: May 9, 1999| Author: MARY CAROLE MCCAULEY | Copyright information

I saw a play Friday night so charged with energy, so full of attractive people behaving despicably, that for more than two hours, I barely blinked.

I couldn't stand not to take it all in. I wanted to inhale it, to absorb it into my pores. The visual pictures were so potent and fleeting I wanted to make a mental record of each one.

The playwright? Henrik Ibsen. Yes, you read that right. Ibsen, the famously dour Norwegian dramatist. And granted, poorly performed Ibsen is excruc...

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