“The production’s rendering of Brack, Tesman, and Hedda’s “triangular association,” to use the judge’s words, is charged.
When Brack is in the room, Hedda becomes uninterested in Tesman, often mocking him for the purpose of impressing their third. At one point, Brack and Hedda sit close to one another on the fainting couch, kicking their legs and hitting each other like schoolchildren as they laugh at the well-meaning scholar. It’s the intelligence of Topham’s performance that the audience, too, feels like giggling (her Hedda is dangerously funny). And McCamus being a couple decades older than Topham makes their characters’ relationship — including Brack’s primary objective, to have power over Hedda — all the more terrifying.”