By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Ian Rickson
New adaptation by Chris Shinn
Starring Mary Louise Parker

Published in 1890, Henrik Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. In Hedda Gabler, the newly-wed Hedda Tesman finds herself bored with married life to her scholar husband, George Tesman. As the daughter of General Gabler, she had grown accustomed to the freedom and exciting social world of her father's home. When her rival, Mrs. Elvsted, re-enters her life with Hedda's former lover, Eilert Lovberg, in tow, Hedda sets out on a shocking path of destruction that affects the lives of everyone around her.

A copy of the script is available from Project Gutenberg (translation by Edmund Gosse and William Archer).

RELEVANT CLASSES

Creative Writing - Fiction Seminar: The Unhinged Narrator (R. Galchen)

History (Barnard) - European Women in the Age of Revolution (D. Valenze)

History - Colloquium in History of Women and Gender (A. Kessler-Harris)

Philosophy - Subjects of Consciousness: The First Person and Self-Knowledge (C. Peacocke)

Theatre (Barnard) - Modern Drama (W. Worthen)