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Are there some truths it's better not to know?
Winner of three Helpmann Awards (2011), including Best Play, this taut, stripped back rendition of a modern classic never lets up.
Director Simon Stone has developed from a wunderkind of Melbourne's indie theatre to an established force on Australia's mainstages.
Here he transplants Ibsen's characters into the contemporary world in a new play tailor-made for an astonishing cast led by Ewen Leslie.
Hjalmar Ekdal grew up rich until scandal cast him into poverty. Now he lives in a tiny flat with his father, his wife, his daughter and a duck.
When his old friend Gregers Werle returns with unfinished business, the truth Gregers brings could shatter the world Hjalmar has built around himself.
A bittersweet portrait of family dysfunction, deception and denial, The Wild Duck resounds for a new age.
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The Wild Duck Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead at The Age, 23 February, 2012
Go see this production of The Wild Duck. Theatre of such delicacy and distillation is vanishingly rare.
The Wild Duck Reviewed by Kate Herbert at Kate Herbert Theatre Reviews, 24 February, 2012
The great strength of this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s five-act play, The Wild Duck, is the exquisitely balanced, sensitively wrought performances.
The Wild Duck Reviewed by Ben Packer at Curtain Call, 24 February, 2012
When theatre gets described as like television, it’s usually in the pejorative sense. Maybe it’s time to move on.
The Wild Duck Reviewed by Alison Croggon at Theatre Notes, 30 March, 2011
Last week Ms TN took a few days off to lounge about in the fleshpots of Sydney.
The Wild Duck Reviewed by Jana Perkovic at guerilla semiotics, 31 March, 2012
I was very disappointed with Simon Stone’s The Wild Duck (at Malthouse, on loan from Sydney’s Belvoir).
