Hedda
By: adapted by Lucy Kirkwood ; from an original work by Henrik Ibsen
Contributors: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Women; Drama; Social conditions
Description: Lucy Kirkwood's version of Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' relocates his nineteenth-century heroine to 21st-century Notting Hill. Hedda, still mourning the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat they can't afford and a pregnancy she doesn't want. Trapped by her past and terrified by her future, bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three men. Ultimately, something has to give. It was first performed at the Gate Theatre, London, on 21 August 2008.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2008.