Overview

A doting husband. A troubled writer. A loaded gun. It's 2019 and Hedda Tesman returns to a life she can't seem to escape.
After thirty years of playing wife, Hedda is bitter and bored. When her estranged daughter, Thea, suddenly reappears asking for help, the present begins to echo the past and Hedda embarks on a path of destruction.
Cordelia Lynn's play Hedda Tesman breathes new life into Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, asking what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. It premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in August 2019 in a co-production with Headlong and The Lowry.