Northern Stage, Newcastle As the heroine of Ibsen's psychodrama, a pistol-packing Victoria Elliott rages against corseted constriction in Selma Dimitrijevic's adaptationThe fashion for Hedda Gabler in recent years has been to impose what might be termed the anti-aspidistra approach, as directors including Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier and Carrie Cracknell have sought to transpose Hedda from an unhappily married 19t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM on February 22, 2017