EIU gets'serious with 'Hedda"Gabler' : CHARLESTON - Hedda Gabler, Henrik over Europe and America in the 1890s. agreed that it is the one play among the James Estep as Lovborg, ~esman's in meeting Hedda." Ibsen's enduringly popular drama about a Some of these stars who have delineated dozen classics of the Norwegian master brilliant academic rival (he writes books Jill Taylor will have the role of Thea poisoned, poisonous, mischief-making the fiercely neurotic passions of a lady dramatistthat had 'not dated at all. on big, vibrant themes, lik~ the march of Elvstedt, who inspired and regenerated woman, will be presented by the Universi- caged in a milieu of mediocrity, have been The story unfolded in Hedda Gabler is of civilization). Lovborg, to Hedda's envy, and had the ty Theatre at Eastern Illinois University Mrs. Fiske, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mme. a young woman of upper class Lovb6rg is the genius-rake Hedda had courage, lacking in Hedda, to desert her beginning Thursday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Nazimova, Eva LeGallienne, Irene Worth, background, the daughter of a general, once driven away, pistol in hand, when out dull husband. John Carmin will portray Other performances are scheduled at 8 Maggie Smith, Eleanora Duse, Blanche whose dangerously tempestuous nature of cowardly puritanism she had felt too at- the sardonic bachelor, Judge Brack, p.m. Nov. 21, 22, 24 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Yurka, Claire Eames, and Claire Bloom in had warned off so many suitors that she tractedto him for safety. Now, jealous another wary former suitor of Hedda's ~,ov. 23. a highly praised presentation in New York had "danced herself out" and so had settl- over another woman's having inspired who, after her marriage to Tesman, plans Tickets are $4 for adults,$3 for senior in 1971. That · was the 22nd professional ed for marriage to a dull, mediocre pedant Lovborg to write his important book, she to form a cosy triangle in the Tesman citizens and children and $2 for EIU stu- production of Hedda Gabler to be seen in with whom she is bored to death. burns up his manuscript, cunningly drives household. Robin-Page will be seen as the dents. Tickets are available at the Fine New York within 73 years, to make it rank Thrashing about in the narrow social him to backslide into drunkenness and plodding pedant's devoted aunt and Eileen .Arts Ticket· Office, open daily Monday . almost with Hamlet in the frequency of its sphere in which she is trapped, she con- disgrace - and presents him with that Sullivan as a servant in the Tesman home.' through Friday, from 1 to 5 p.m. Reserva- presentations there. trives little excitements for herself that pistol she had once threatened to use on tions and ticket information can be obtain- "'Hedda Gabler' must be one of the ,have the effect of destroying all the lives him, to use on himself. Terry Allen is directing this famous ed by -calling 581-3110 during ticket office most flawless plays ever written," was the around her. "Who would want to meet such a fien- . saga · of the pistol-weilding ."harpy hours. opinion given by Clive Barnes in the New Featured in the cast with Vogt at the dish woman as this?" asked drama critic . woman," as Ibsen called her, and C.P. Graduate student Karen Vogt will be York Times, in reviewing Bloom's produc- Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre will be T.E. Kalem in his Time Magazine review Blanchette is designing the setting for the featured in the central rale that has con- tion, which he and all other critics ac- Benjamin Livingston as Hedda's stuffy of Claire Bloom's 1971 performance of home Tesman fatuously mortgaged tinually attracted some of the world's claimed as having a greater relevance in husband, Tesman, tiresomely devoted to Hedda and he replied to his rhetorical himself to provide for Hedda. Nancy Paule greatest actresses since the play first the 1970s - due to the Women's Lib writing a book on the domestic industries question: "For 80 years playgoers around is designing the turn-of-the-century struck audience5 like a thunderbo;.:lt:...::.al~l _.....:.m:.::o::v:.;;e:::m:.:.:e::n::.t _---=th:.::a::n:...:.ev;.:e::r..:.b:.:e::fo::r:..:e.:... .:: E:..:.v::..er:..::y:..:o.::n.:.e _...... ::o;,:.f ~B:;;r:.::a:.::b:.:a .::.nt::....::in::....::th:::e::.....:M.::.l:.::· d~dl:.::e:...... :..:A~g~es~, _a:::n~d:...... :T:..:... _--...::t.::.he:::....:;w:.::o;.;rl:.::d~h:.:a~v.;;;e..::b~e;;;;;en~e.::.xt:;:.r.;;;em~e;:.,/l :..l~· n~te:::.!r.;;;e~st~e~d __::..:c o::.:s;.:.:tu::m.::::..:es.::. ______~ _____