Hedda Gabler (Broadway)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 4, 2001
Closed Jan 13, 2002
Opened Oct 4, 2001
Closed Jan 13, 2002
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Jon Robin Baitz adapts Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In this timeless drama, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage goes to great lengths in order to escape. Hedda tests the limits of social convention with disastrous results. Nicholas Martin directs this production, which stars Kate Burton.
The final performance of the show on January 13 is a benefit for The Actor's Fund. Tickets are on sale for $36.25 - $71.25.
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It is unlikely that Henrik Ibsen's first audiences, watching Hedda Gabler in 1890s Norway, were familiar with the phrase "control freak." But since Jon Robin Baitz goes so far as to include the slangy demurral "no problem" in his carefully modernized translation of the play, employed for the current Broadway production, it doesn't seem inappropriate to call the smoldering heroine a control freak. After all, she does end her life with an inherited pistol when she realizes that her determination "to have some power over someone's destiny"--as she and Baitz phrase it--is doomed to fail.
Destiny has little currency in contemporary vocabularies, but that's the way Hedda sees things. She dies [...]