REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE CANARD SAUVAGE By Thomas Ostermeier
by Wesley Doucette - Jul 21, 2025
Tragedy doesn’t hinge on a twist but on a reversal or, as the Greeks termed it, a peripeteia. At the start of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, the characters have already endured a series of such reversals. The play is structured less as a tragedy than as its postmortem. What happens after the cataclysm?