Hedda returns home from her honeymoon with scholar husband and is faced with a lifetime of boredom. Suffocated, betrayed, and struggling with a life devoid of excitement, she looks for ways to fulfil her desires by bringing destruction to those around her, but in the process, also bringing about her own.
Our pop up production of Hedda gabler took place in a flat in Bermondsey, overlooking the London skyline. This production honours the sense of experiment that audiences felt when Ibsen’s plays were first seen in London - when invited audiences would seek them out in special performances for invited guests. These nights were radically intimate, realistic and disturbing. We are used to Ibsen’s classics of realism on the stage but how will the play feel when it is in the room with you? When the fiction is so close?
CAST
Hedda Gabler - Gemma Brockis
Jorgen Tesman - Jack Aldisert
Counselor Brack - Nigel Barrett
Ejlert Løvborg - Michael Hajiantonis
Thea Elvsted - Olivia Steele
Juliane Tesman - Serena Bobowski
Berte - Hannah Gintberg Dees
CREATIVES
Writer - Henrik Ibsen
Translation - Jack Aldisert
Directors - Jack Aldisert, Dominika Uçar, Amber Williams
Producers - Amber Williams, Dominika Uçar, Hannah Gintberg Dees
Production & Dramaturgy Assistant - Stanley Platt-Jones
Costume Consultant - Isabella Van Braeckel
We want to say a huge thank you to Sigrún Davíðsdóttir for letting us into her beautiful home and being the kindest, most welcoming host we could have asked for. Sigrùn, thank you for believing in us and in our vision. None of this would be possible without you and for that, we are eternally grateful.
