Hedda Gabler (International) assertion single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 Hedda Gabler
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Adaptations

y separately published work icon Hedda Gabler Andrew Upton , ( trans. Marit Breivik Andersen )expression Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2004 Z1463084 2004 single work drama

'Andrew Upton has unravelled the mystery of Ibsen's masterpiece and constructed a psychological thriller of cinematic intensity and power. His superb adaption [sic] gives Australian readers a fresh and exciting insight into one of the great dramatic works of modern literature.'

Source: Libraries Australia. (Sighted 29/01/2008).

Hedda Meredith Penman , Olivia Allen , 2010 single work drama

A new adaptation of Hedda Gabler.

Hedda Gabler Joanna Murray-Smith , 2013 single work drama 'A heroine. A victim. A villain. Hedda Gabler is all of these and more - a woman filled with a restless passion for life that cannot be satisfied by her marriage or her perfect home. Henrik Ibsen's towering classic will be given a sharp contemporary adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith (The Female of the Species, Lovechild, Honour).

Reared to take her place as a society hostess but without the means to support such a lifestyle after her father's death, Hedda is trapped in a loveless marriage and must live out her life according to a set of standards totally alien to her upbringing.

As she strives to find a way to fulfil her desires, an old flame from the past reappears - the brilliant Lovborg whose prodigal talent serves to highlight the dull and plodding world of her husband. The connection cannot be resisted and leads to violent and tragic events even she could not have predicted or controlled.' (Producer's blurb)
Hedda Gabler Adena Jacobs , 2014 single work drama

'Belvoir’s new resident director, Adena Jacobs (Persona) presents a poetic, cinematic vision of Ibsen’s famous drama, drawing out its expressionistic imagery and the wild, private impulses of the characters. In a gender-bending twist, she has cast Ash Flanders (one half of queer theatre punks Sisters Grimm) in the title role.' (Source: Belvoir St Theatre website)

y separately published work icon Hedda Melissa Bubnic , 2018 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2019 13738983 2018 single work drama

'Hedda Gabler is railing against her life. She didn’t marry bogan drug slinger George Tesman so she could play housewife in a monstrous Gold Coast mansion with white leather couches, blingy chandeliers and endless rounds of Aperol Spritz.

'She wants something much more. Now her old flame, Ejlert Løvborg, is out of prison and off the junk. Is he about to slice off a piece of George’s empire? Maybe Hedda can pull some strings to work this to her advantage.

'Logie Award-winning actor Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake) is the Hedda we’ve all been waiting to see. Melissa Bubnic gives us a local version of the Henrik Ibsen classic that is as dangerous and surprising as its heroine.'

Source: Queensland Theatre Company.

Her Father's Daughter Keziah Warner , 2018 single work drama

A site-specific adaptation of Hedda Gabler, produced 'in the civic spaces of Prahran Council chambers to make resonant how privilege and inherited entitlement intersect with powerlessness and complacency; how our unfulfilled ambitions can implode and private identifications with inherited systems can impede women’s chances to be actual agents within society' (Source: Hotel Now).

Notes

  • Hedda Gabler is included in AustLit because of Australian-written adaptations.

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Works about this Work

Hedda Gabler i "she burns his manuscript and I cry out –", Gayelene Carbis , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
Hedda Gabler i "she burns his manuscript and I cry out –", Gayelene Carbis , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , May 2021;
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