Janet Suzman in Hedda Gabler (1972) / P.6/14 / Act II, scene 1

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I suppose that when poets lack proper subjects for their plays no skill in composing poetic verses can remedy this defect; so Monsieur Ibsen should have composed plays about Old Norse heroines like Hervor and her cursed blade Tyrfing instead of such tales about spoiled bourgeois women who being confused by being over intelligent and bored by life; look on the female key roles in the plays of Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides or Sophocles like Cordelia or Antigone!

[conewells]

FIONA SHAW'S IS THE BEST. None of that smarminess and coldness played by endless actors, including the one by the lovely Ms. Suzman here. (not her fault; that's the way she was directed, perhaps).