HEDDA GABLER Austin, TX

I directed a reconsideration of Hedda Gabler for the dirigo group in Austin, TX.

"As reimagined by Laura Somers, the whole affair is twisted with a perverse cinematic flair: Imagine a deviant Doris Day/Rock Hudson flick with some wacky Jerry Lewis tossed in. Director Somers spares no opportunity to turn silver-screen excess into stage gold. The thing has a late-1950s zip: party dresses and sweater vests, manhattans and vodka martinis, characters who breeze in and out, Ray-Bans on a drifting black-clad figure from the past.  Then there are the songs -- lip-synched, emblematic numbers that offer a hint of subtext, while showing off the extravagance (and silliness) of this restrictive world."  Austin Chronicle