The honeymoon is over, and Hedda is feeling trapped.
Raised in privilege as the daughter of the great General Gabler, she has married beneath her station into the ‘genteel poverty’ offered by her husband, George Tesman, a well-meaning academic who is doing all he can to meet her every whim. It is not enough. Her needs are deeper. And darker.
Even as she struggles to restrain her wild impulses, she begins to crave the fatal power to mould someone else’s destiny. That someone else turns out to be the only person in the world that Hedda might love.
Can Hedda awaken a sense of empathy before things go too far? Will she find meaning in a life so filled with limitations? Hedda Gabler transfers to the Jack Studio following its sell-out production at The Bread and Roses Theatre.
Kelsey Short as Hedda Gabler, Michael Flanagan as George Tesman, Megan McGery as Thea Elvstead , River Norris as Eilert Løvborg, Michael Martin as Judge Brack , Caroline Edwards as Miss Tesman , Jackie Mitchell as Berta
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.
Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer.
Presented by Fish Don’t Matter TC.
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH. Dates: Tues 3 – Saturday 14 October 2023 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £17, £15 conc
Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.80 fee for phone bookings only)
