Whenever a character should chance to mention the wild duck, he does so in deeply serious tones. And when Hedvig, the Ekdals' daughter, talks about the duck and the dog which fetched it out of the ...

and deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen’s cynical play ‘The Wild Duck’. Hjalmar lives in a run-down flat with his wife Gina and their daughter Hedvig. The day after tomorrow Hedvig will turn ...