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4 unusual facts about The Wild Duck


Linnéa Hillberg

Made on stage critically acclaimed appearances in a number of classic parts; as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, as both Mrs. Alving and Regina in Ibsen's Ghosts (different stagings) and as Gina Ekdahl in The Wild Duck; as Laura in Strindberg's The Father and as Claire Zachanassian in Dürrenmatt's The Visit.

The Wild Duck

The original soundtrack recording was produced for compact disc release by Simon Walker, Philip Powers and John Steven Lasher for Southern Cross Records.

In 1976, a film version in German, written and directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer, was released.

A 1983 film version in English by Tutte Lemkow produced in Australia by Phillip Emanuel and directed by Henri Safran, the characters' names completely Anglicized, starred Jeremy Irons and Liv Ullmann.


Eloise Mignon

In 2011 Mignon played the role of Hedvig in Belvoir's production of the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck opposite Toby Schmitz and Anita Hegh.

The Last Messiah

Zapffe compared this mechanism to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's concept of the life-lie from the play The Wild Duck, where the family has achieved a tolerable modus vivendi by ignoring the skeletons and by permitting each member to live in a dreamworld of his own.


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Alton, Staffordshire

The village was home to seven public houses, including 'The Talbot', 'The Bulls Head', ' The Royal Oak', 'The Bridge House', 'The White Hart', 'The Blacksmiths Arms' and 'The Lord Shrewsbury' (formerly The Wild Duck, renamed The Lord Shrewsbury; 'Lord' is an acceptable form of oral address for an Earl).