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Language, Portraiture Don’t Always Match in NCR’s Decent ‘Hedda Gabler’

By Martin Jones Westlin | June 5, 2016 |

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.

Cygnet Theatre’s Coward Shows: One Down, One to Go

By Martin Jones Westlin | October 9, 2015 |

Noel Coward once said that he didn’t look at himself through anybody’s eyes but his own. That’s the mark of an absolutely transcendent farceur — and with a few exceptions, Cygnet Theatre Company proudly presents him as he is in a double bill.