Posts Tagged ‘Mhari Sandoval’
Language, Portraiture Don’t Always Match in NCR’s Decent ‘Hedda Gabler’
Amid her sham marriage and her obsession with what’s not hers, Hedda Gabler Tesman is an Everyman for the world’s pathologically unfulfilled. Henrik Ibsen’s iconic character gets an airing in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘ Hedda Gabler’ — but a new translation seeks to redefine Hedda’s periphery rather than explore her depths.
Read MoreNCR’s ‘Chapter Two’: For Once, Neil Simon (Horrors!) Isn’t All That Bad
Neil Simon sucks, God bless him, except when he doesn’t. North Coast Repertory Theatre is mounting a very good ‘Chapter Two,’ Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason and a nod to the pain of widowerhood — for once, this criminally overrated playwright is on to something.
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