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Hedda
Gabler

Adapted by Adena Jacobs from the play by Henrik Ibsen
Director Adena Jacobs
  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 28 June – 3 August 2014

After the Broadway premiere of Hedda Gabler in 1902, one reviewer wrote of its extraordinary heroine: ‘Degenerate, selfish, morbid, cruel, bitter, jealous, something of a visionary, something of a lunatic.’

Hedda Gabler is trapped inside a conventional life: she married the scholar George Tesman. But money is short, Tesman’s old rival Ejlert Lövborg has turned up again, Judge Brack is visiting with alarming regularity, and Hedda Gabler’s volcanic boredom is reaching its limits. So begins a dangerous game of finding purpose in a purposeless existence.

Belvoir’s Resident Director Adena Jacobs has an uncanny ability to uncover the torrents of instinct that run beneath the routines of modern living. Ash Flanders is a man who has made an artform out of playing tragic heroines.

Their Hedda Gabler is a primal close-up of Ibsen’s electrifying marriage tragedy.

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Team

Adapted by Adena Jacobs from the play by Henrik Ibsen
Director Adena Jacobs
Set Designer Dayna Morrissey
Costume Designer David Fleischer
Lighting Designer Danny Pettingill
Composer Kelly Ryall
Dramaturg Luisa Hastings Edge
Fight Director Scott Witt
Stage Manager Edwina Guinness
Assistant Stage Manager Angharad Lindley

Cast

Branden Christine
Lynette Curran
Ash Flanders
Marcus Graham
Anna Houston
Oscar Redding
Tim Walter

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Production images by Ellis Parrinder
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Rehearsal images by Brett Boardman

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