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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20010706
Author:Mary Houlihan

IN HEDDA'S HEAD: Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen created two of theater's more memorable women: Nora in "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler." The complex, ultimately unresolvable and more mysteriously interesting story of Hedda Gabler is being staged at Steppenwolf Theatre, under the direction of former Long Wharf Theatre artistic director Douglas Hughes. Hedda, played by Steppenwolf ensemble member Martha Plimpton, plays a game of control with her husband and friends as she holds court in her new house. Cornered in a world of smug middle-class attitudes, she follows an inevitable road to ...

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