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Hedda Gabler
Author(s):
Frederick J. Marker
This Canadian adaptation, inspired by Ingmar Bergman's stage version, offers an ascerbic modern distillation of Ibsen's classic tragedy.
Less than forty-eight hours after returning from a luxurious honeymoon, the former Hedda Gabler, now Hedda Tesman, lies dead in the parlor of her new home, the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Ibsen’s terse masterpiece unflinchingly leads us to this shocking but inevitable conclusion. At the center of the play is one of the greatest roles in modern drama, the fascinating Hedda Gabler, who finds herself stranded in a seemingly ordinary but dangerously imbalanced domestic system. It includes her husband, the ambitious scholar George Tesman, his doting Aunt Julie and the powerful Judge Brack, who seems intent on playing a very large role in the young couple’s life. Into this mix comes an old schoolmate of Hedda’s, Thea Elvsted, who has courageously abandoned a loveless marriage in favor of the passionate partnership she has found with the troubled Eilert Lovborg, a brilliant thinker who is an academic rival of Tesman’s and who shares an intense secret history with Hedda. Employing methods which virtually defined the modern psychological drama, Ibsen stealthily reveals the bitter conflicts and thwarted longings that lie just below the "civilized" transactions of daily life.
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | 16 | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 7 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 4 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | 7 | | Maximum Cast: | 7 | | Cost: | Not Available | | Publisher: | Playwrights Union of Canada
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | 1551552248
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