The Wild Duck | Review of The Wild Duck
In the following review, Brustein talks about the contemporary remake of The Wild Duck.
At the Arena Stage, Lucian Pintilie’s version of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck is a genuinely new look at the play, which pulls it out of canvas realism into a world of poetic metaphor and savage farce. The opening act in old Werle’s house is not altogether promising, but then it’s a fearfully difficult piece of exposition (the second act of this five-act play is largely expository too). Pintilie tries to distract our attention from the two servants who provide Ibsen’s background material by using strained devices behind a transparent Mylar mirror, including a sumptuous banquet...
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