"A performance that would be merely silly and self-indulgent if it were not also scandalous"

Last night Andy noted that The Miami Herald will not often run a really nasty reviewsm(though I got away with a scorching Eagles concert write-up three years ago). How reassursing that The New York Times has no such scruples. Take a look at this one of Cate Blanchett starring in a new production of Hedda Gabler.