The Wild Duck
Written by Henrik Ibsen
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Ibsen displays masterful use of irony: despite his dogmatic insistence on truth, Gregers never says what he thinks but only insinuates, and is never understood until the play reaches its climax. Gregers hammers away at Hjalmar through innuendo and coded phrases until he realizes the truth; Gina's daughter, Hedvig, is not his child. Blinded by Gregers' insistence on absolute truth, he disavows the child. Seeing the damage he has wrought, Gregers determines to repair things, and suggests to Hedvig that she sacrifice the wild duck, her wounded pet, to prove her love for Hjalmar. Hedvig, alone among the characters, recognizes that Gregers always speaks in code, and looking for the deeper meaning in the first important statement Gregers makes which does not contain one, kills herself rather than the duck in order to prove her love for him in the ultimate act of self-sacrifice. Only too late do Hjalmar and Gregers realize that the absolute truth of the "ideal" is sometimes too much for the human heart to bear. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Cast
Narrator: Kristingj
WERLE, a merchant, manufacturer, etc.: Algy Pug
GREGERS WERLE, his son: David Goldfarb
OLD EKDAL: Lewis
HIALMAR EKDAL, his son, a photographer: Marty Kris
GINA EKDAL, Hjalmar's wife: Helen Falconer
HEDVIG, their daughter, a girl of fourteen: ChyAnne Donnell
MRS. SORBY, Werle's housekeeper: Carol Box
RELLING, a doctor & A SHORT-SIGHTED GENTLEMAN: Lars Rolander
MOLVIK, student of theology & ANOTHER WAITER: David Lawrence
GRABERG, Werle's bookkeeper: Availle
PETTERSEN, Werle's servant: DublinGothic
JENSEN, a hired waiter: Max Körlinge
A FLABBY GENTLEMAN: Leonard Wilson
A THIN-HAIRED GENTLEMAN: Martin Geeson
Audio edited by: Algy Pug
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.
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