Hedda Gabler

One of Ibsen’s most compelling and conflicted characters, Hedda Gabler is an aristocratic woman aching to free of her middle-class life and yet terrified of scandal and the threat of social decline. Fueled by her devious machinations, the drama spirals toward her self-inflicted destruction. In Ostermeier’s vision of Ibsen’s world, however, no one takes heed — “the set keeps turning; life goes on like a broken record” (The Guardian).