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...Hedda Gabler...
...Fatal Attraction converted you to misogyny, going to see Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler will have you cursing the female sex ad infinitum. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is not the kind of girl you'd want to be set on a blind date with. She's the kind of girl who plays with fire, firearms to be more precise. She's a psycho killer. Qu'est-ce que c'est?! If you dare to find out, go see her in action this weekend at the Lowell House...
...crux of Hedda Gabler's discontent, as we vaguely infer from the play's early scenes, has something to do with her recent marriage to the bookish George Tesman (Erik Salovaara). Hedda is not what you would call the Stepford wife type. She gains pleasure from slamming doors, playing loud piano mazurkas, and polishing gun barrels as opposed to silver flatware. As she so matter-of-factly puts it, "I have no talent for such things as responsibilities. I have a talent for only one thing in life--boring myself to death...
...Hedda, played here by Holly Cate, is never a bore to watch. Cate portrays Hedda with proportionate coldness, but wisely refrains from histrionics. Hedda's fury isn't the tumultuous kind of a Lady Macbeth or a Medea. In her appropriately antiseptic delivery, Cate invokes the quiet strength of Ibsen's heroine...
...Hedda and her husband Jack accepted more than $10 million in revenue for their store last year, which includes a bridesmaids shop two blocks away to which customers are shuttled by limo. "The bridesmaid is such an underdog," Hedda explains. "We wanted to give her a psychological lift." Bridesmaids everywhere may be brooding over reports that the marriage rate for eligible women ages 15 to 44 has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded: for each 1,000 women, there are fewer than 100 weddings each year. Not even the Kleinfeld's limo can ride over a sobering stat like...