‘No vine leaves? Whatever.’

Belvoir, July 8 ADENA Jacobs’s production of Hedda Gabler is perverse not for her casting of a man as Hedda – it’s an intriguing starting point – but for the failure to make anything much of it. Belvoir’s Hedda Gabler is weightless to quite a marvellous degree. Jacobs writes in her adaptor and director’s note:…