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Hedda Gabler
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20061206
Author:Soloski, Alexis
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen
BAM Harvey Theater
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Hedda On
The Beach Boys rock Ibsen's world in this very modern production
BY ALEXlS SOLOSKl
One doesn't often associate the Beach Boys with bourgeois angst, but it's Brian Wilson who gives voice to the heroine's sufferings in Thomas Ostermeier's striking rendition of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. "The world could show nothing to me/So what good would living do me," Wilson chirps lugubriously as the stage revolves and other characters busy themselves. That such a soundtrack should accompany Hedda's suicide-and that the suicide, seen by BAM ...
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