A game to the massacre. A comforting home environment set up by the appearance of a bourgeois living room. Nothing is ever true to the end, of what they say. These are the gestures, the obsessions, the lies to cheat people.
Hedda, the daughter of General Gabler, she married Tesman, a mediocre intellectual who aspires to a university. It bothered by itself, by its choices, its suitors frivolous and Thea, the old friend from college, became the muse of Lovborg, intellectually brilliant and bold, much more interesting than her husband. It compensates only when you can exercise a sadistically perverse influence on Lovborg, his former lover and thus afforded angelic love Thea. Hedda is pregnant. But not even her husband realizes it. She lives her pregnancy as an additional existential frustration. There is no place for life in the bourgeois salon. Maybe not even for death, if not practiced in secret, in a last act of extreme intimacy. It will be the night (mother mask par excellence), with its orgiastic do, to reveal the nakedness of our protagonists. After an evening of "good", Lovborg has lost its unique manuscript that has just finished. Tesman has found and would like to return it, but Hedda takes it. Then invite the brilliant intellectual but desperate to give themselves a good death. After burning the manuscript. Lovborg killed himself, but Thea has kept the notes of the lost manuscript. Tesman feels obliged, for the memory of his friend, to collaborate with Thea to rebuild the lost masterpiece. Hedda retires in a part of the living room, where they collected the memories of his father and kills himself.
The stage and lighting design of this show can do their ruthless sincerity of the theater: there is none of the named objects, no house, no room. There are only seven chairs and drawn on the ground forms of squares that become mazes. In these, our masks are chasing. There is no positive character in this drama of Ibsen. Good and Evil is flatter, sniff, they stage their orgiastic dance relegating human beings to mere onlookers. Marionette left there in the darkness of the theater.
A game in the massacre said. Where the theater is the real star of this show. A theater to mask and unmask his guests, they will be. We can do is to play the game.
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