The Wild Duck

<p>My heart started breaking at 9:45 last night a little more than two hours into Great Lakes Theater Festival's THE WILD DUCK breaking for a once-happy family sucked down into the depths. It may take a while to get there as Ibsen marches deliberately and unswervingly toward the precipice but your heart too is in for an exhausting but enlightening workout...</p><p>  Written in 1884 this Norwegian masterpiece could hardly be more at home in the United States in 2000. It is a play about destructively false idealism that leads to self-righteous campaigns against human foibles. It could easily be about Kenneth Starr. Translator and adaptor Anthony Clarvoe [has] chosen to update the language and to set the play in the Cleveland of today...</p><p>  Except for the Americanization of names and a few almost invisible trims Clarvoe's is a remarkably faithful update.</p><p>Tony Brown Cleveland Plain Dealer</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>