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Sitting behind me at the Tuesday night performance of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler"was a couple in late middle age... or whatever comes after that.
She: "He really gets women. He really gets the way they've been confined. Not that I ever was."
He: [indecipherable groan.]
She: "I know you're bored. "
He: " I'm grinning and bearing it."
She: "It's a night out. You've got to get out of the house, Hal."
So much contained in all that, even if they were kidding a little, which they might have been. And by the way, it's never one hundred percent clear whether Ibsen and Hedda themselves are kidding, a little.
We're 120 years and a whole lot of social change down the road from "Hedda." And yet, the struggle between men and women -- especially between the restlessness of women and placidness of men seems unchanged.
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