Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler


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Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler Translated from the Norwegian   by Michael Meyer The play is set in the drawing room of the Tesmans' house in a provincial town. An unhappily married woman is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family.   The Cast: Bill Paterson........Jorgen Tesman Hannah Gordon........Hedda Gabler Gudrun Ure...........Miss Juliane Tesman   (Aunt Julle) Sandra Clark.........Mrs. Thea Elvsted Bill Simpson.........Judge Brack Peter Kelly..........Ejlert Loevborg Molly Weir...........Berte Directed by John Tydeman The Monday Play Mon 2nd Mar 1981 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM A masterpiece of modern theater, Hedda Gabler is a dark psychological drama whose powerful and reckless heroine has tested the mettle of leading actresses of every generation since its first production in Norway in 1890. Ibsen's Hedda is an aristocratic and spiritually hollow woman, nearly devoid of redeeming virtues. George Bernard Shaw described her as having "no conscience, no conviction … she remains mean, envious, insolent, cruel, in protest against others' happiness." Her feeling of anger and jealousy toward a former schoolmate and her ruthless manipulation of her husband and an earlier admirer lead her down a destructive path that ends abruptly with her own tragic demise. Goodreads

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