LAST PRODUCTION...

A modern adaption of an Ibsen classic
Hedda Gabler has it all - the life she chose, the husband she chose and the home she chose. She is brilliant, witty and cultivated. Expecting to launch a salon of her own for the social and artistic elite.

Even so, Hedda isn't happy. Just back from a 6-month honeymoon, she is bored and frustrated. She resents the sacrifice of freedom involved in any commitment – to her new husband, whom she already finds intolerably dull; to the home she chose on a whim and now finds claustrophobic; to the pressure to become a mother. 'I will not be depended on!' she cries.

Hedda has created her own prison, her own hell. Her baffled rage at her situation leads her to manipulate those around her in more and more impulsive, destructive ways, always seeking an escape into a pure, aesthetic realm which is where she feels she belongs.

No – she is not a good person, Hedda Gabler. But she is mesmeric. She has a pair of pistols and knows how to use them. She effortlessly commands the attention of everyone around her – and that includes the theatre audience.