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Hedda Gabler, This Is Not a Love Story

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 3m

Henrik Ibsen, Selma Dimitrijevic

By Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Selma Dimitrijevic, from the literal translation by Anne and Karin Bamborough

This married life is not what Hedda Gabler signed up for. She is the daughter of a general; a gun-toting, horse-riding, party-throwing siren. Then, with one little ring on a finger, she’s supposed to turn into the quiet, predictable wife of an academic.

Hedda Gabler, This Is Not a Love Story

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    4w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Stage & Screen)

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When promises are broken, an old flame comes to town, blackmail and scandal are threatened and other, braver women start to occupy the limelight, Hedda has to decide: must she submit, settle down and knuckle under or is it possible to stand up, take control and tear it all down?

Hedda Gabler is Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece, possibly the greatest stage role ever written for an actress. This funny, shocking and powerful play opens up the desperation and absurdity of trying to live as a thing that you are not.

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Henrik Ibsen

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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Selma Dimitrijevic

Selma Dimitrijevic
Selma is Greyscale Theatre Company’s Artistic Director. Theatre credits include: Dr. Frankenstein (Greyscale/Northern Stage); A Prayer (Greyscale/NorthernStage); Night Time (Traverse Theatre); Broken (Oran Mor); Game Theory (ek/Traverse Theatre); Re:Union (7:84); Harmless ...
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