Costa Mesa, Calif.: how Hedda got her groove back.(FRONT & CENTER)(Interview)
American Theatre, January, 2006 by O; '; Quinn, Jim
Jeff Whitty is perpetually obsessed, and it's a good thing, too. That's how his plays get written. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Take The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Whitty's comic fantasia on the theme of literary immortality that begins performances Jan. 8 at South Coast Repertory, with director Bill Rauch at the helm.
Set in a wacky alternative afterlife where fictional characters like Ibsen's iconic female endure and intermingle (to generally riotous effect), the play was inspired by a cluster of obsessions to which its author readily confesses. "I've ...
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