Who directed Maggie Smith in London's National Theater production of 'Hedda Gabler'?

Zbeckabee

Laurence Olivier liked Ingmar Bergman's Hedda Gabler so much he bought the production. At the time Bergman was making some of his greatest films - Hedda Gabler came between Persona (1966) and Cries and Whispers (1973) - but in Sweden he was working hardest as a theatre director. His Stockholm production toured to London in 1968, and two years later, he reprised it with actors from the National Theatre company. Maggie Smith was playing Ibsen's antiheroine - "a prime hurdle", as the Guardian's Philip Hope-Wallace put it. His only quibbles about Smith's "gripping... ironic, mordant" performance were that "[she] sleeps on her couch with her shoes on... yet sheds this footwear before shooting herself". http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2003/apr/30/theatre.samanthaellis Oct 07 10, 9:23 PM

Zbeckabee

"One of Brett's best performances was his masterly portrayal of feeble devotion to Maggie Smith's Hedda Gabler under Ingmar Bergman's direction. He created a wholly credible character, not the usual bungling fool but a very presentable, handsome young man who just happens to be too dull, too scholarly and too conventional for his wife." http://www.brettish.com/middle-stages.html Oct 07 10, 9:25 PM