About the Play
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One of the most intriguing, perplexing, and complex characters of the modern stage, Hedda craves freedom, finds herself trapped, and responds in surprising ways. Jon Robin Baitz’s adaptation has been called “a Hedda Gabler for the 21st century” that reveals “a more universal tragedy about all people,” while still emphasizing the feminist message that so confounded Ibsen’s first audiences.
According to the back cover of the play, Ibsen’s most beguiling antiheroine is given a new twist in Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed adaptation of Hedda Gabler. She’s no longer the chilly, inscrutable manipulator but a woman with, as The New York Times put it, ‘a context and a persuasive raison d’être.’ Ibsen’s classic play here emerges with renewed vitality and newfound dramatic resonance.
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About This Production
Performance Dates and Times
April 24–26; May 1–3, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
May 3, 2 p.m. Matinee
Location
E.E. Bach Theatre in McKinley Hall, SPU Campus
Director
Andrew Ryder
Scenery Designer
Don Yanik
Costume Designer
Sarah Mosher