Overview

In this radical new version by Lucy Kirkwood, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated in present-day London to startling effect. Like a freshly cleaned old master, Hedda and her predicament emerge with new force and psychological truth. Hedda was commissioned and first staged by the Gate Theatre, London, on 21 August 2008 in a production directed by Carrie Cracknell, the co-artistic director.