Hedda Gabler (O'Rowe)

Overview

A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny? Mark O’Rowe's fluid yet faithful adaptation of Ibsen's masterpiece premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Authors

Mark O'Rowe

Mark O'Rowe is a playwright and film writer whose second play, HOWIE THE ROOKIE, won him the George Devine Award when it premiered at the Bush Theatre in 1999. In 2003, Mark wrote his first feature film, Intermission, starring Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. In 2008 he ad ...

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Henrik Ibsen

At age 23, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a national drama. He directed the Norwegian Theatre in Kristiana from 1857 to 1863, when the theatre went bankrupt. He then set off ...

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