Hedda Gabler and 42nd Street
"Heinrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler remains a titanic creation that still demarcates the theater's passage into modernity. Its protagonist is the embodiment of contradiction, from the diamond-like clarity of her individuality to her ultimately inscrutable motives. Does she represent the rudiments of an emerging feminist consciousness? (She's blazingly complex and refuses to conform to prescribed gender roles.) Or does she …