Hedda (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Henrik Ibsen; Lucy Kirkwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184842020X ISBN 13: 9781848420205

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2008

Synopsis

Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesn't 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.

In this radical new version by Lucy Kirkwood, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated in present-day London to startling effect. Like a freshly cleaned old master, Hedda and her predicament emerge with new force and psychological truth.

Hedda was commissioned and first staged by the Gate Theatre, London, on 21 August 2008 in a production directed by Carrie Cracknell, the co-artistic director.

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Review:

A Hedda for our times. --Guardian

Ibsen's 19th-century masterpiece relocated thrillingly to London 2008... Kirkwood makes us believe absolutely in this modern-day world of mountainous mortgages and bitchy academia. --Evening Standard

Synopsis:

In this radical new version by Lucy Kirkwood, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated in present-day London to startling effect. Like a freshly cleaned old master, Hedda and her predicament emerge with new force and psychological truth. Hedda was commissioned and first staged by the Gate Theatre, London, on 21 August 2008 in a production directed by Carrie Cracknell, the co-artistic director.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184842020X
• ISBN 13: 9781848420205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128