Festival Theatre Playhouse: The Wild Duck

At the very core of Henrk Ibsen's play, "The Wild Duck", is that old engine room of classic drama, the family and it explores just how much a family can take before it cracks. The story revolves around Hjalmar Ekdal a photographer by trade and dreamer by nature, Gina his wife and their daughter Hedbig. Into this menage comes Hjalmar's old school friend a relentless seeker truth who reveals to Hjalmar the deceptions and illusion that underpin his supposedly happy home.

So you've really decided to leave us then not surprised with a past like yours. As director Jeremy Sims and his Pork Chop theatre company grapple with the intricacies of a play written over a century ago, its reliance to our age is undiminished. Despite the period costume the concerns of a family facing truth and fear at the end of a century surrounded by technological change still resonate today. It's a family that um ..its a family that get on really well but want to find a better way to exist. The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen turned old notions of drama upside down by focusing on the drama within.

In Victorian Europe these things were not discussed you just got on with it. Actors like Lisa Hensley and Christopher Stollery bring this classic drama to life each night at the Playhouse and Lisa Hensley believes a lot of women will identify with the part she plays. She's fabulous, she's very hard to play because she has a secret, she's with a man who tends to go on about himself just a tad, I'm sure a lot of women out there no I shouldn't say that.
The Wild Duck continues at the Festival Centre Playhouse for the next two weeks. You can book at Bass on 131 246.

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