Hedda Gabler

There is something surprisingly intimate about watching theatre online, as your vantage point looms above the audience in celestial smugness, miles away from the back row seat with 15% visibility…

There is a rich tradition of male anti-heroes in drama: Hamlet, Eddie Carbone, even Walter White. But for women, the list is rather more limited. Yet, Hedda Gabler is one…

This October, an exciting modern reconstruction of the century-old masterpiece Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, is coming to the Festival Theatre. Directed by the renowned Ivo van Hove, this show…

Often held up as the ‘female Hamlet’, Hedda Gabler exists in a tradition that too easily resembles a desert in terms of female leading roles. Thus, the comparison is not…