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The goal of Ferndale’s new Slipstream Theatre Initiative is to make classic theater more accessible to modern audiences, and the company reaches and exceeds it admirably with its production of “Hedda Gabler.”
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda, newly married and perpetually dissatisfied, remains one of the greatest and most complex characters in theater. In the buttoned-down world of the late 19th Century, she is overflowing with passion, scheming and frustration as she manipulates everyone in her orbit.