A bold new version of Ibsens tragic masterpiece by an award winning modern writer of Chimerica.
In Lucy Kirkwoods version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsens nineteenth century heroine is relocated to present day London, to startling effect.
Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesnt love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesnt want.
Trapped by her past and terrified of her future, bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three men.
And in the end, something has to give, Lucy Kirkwoods Hedda premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in August, a Hedda for our times Guardian Ibsensth century masterpiece relocated thrillingly to LondonKirkwood makes us believe absolutely in this modern day world of mountainous mortgages and bitchy academia Evening Standard.
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