Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff On "Hedda Gabler"

The Theatre Times: Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre section, likes boxes. Many of his scenographic configurations have gravitated around a structure which the audience look in to — a fishbowl, as with Glengarry Glen Ross (2003) or a pine box where we are trapped with the performers in a space that appears neither theatre nor life but where the boundaries between the two are blurred, as in his reworking of Uncle Vanya entitled Vania (escenas de la vida) (2017).