Hedda Gabler

Meet Hedda Gabler, the eponymous anti-heroine of Ibsen's searing domestic drama. The daughter of a formidable general, Hedda returns from her honeymoon to a life she already finds suffocating, trapped in a loveless marriage to the well-meaning but unremarkable George Tesman. Her ennui is shattered by the reappearance of Eilert Løvborg, a brilliant but dissolute former lover whose return threatens to upend their precarious financial stability. As Hedda navigates the machinations of her old schoolmate Thea, who seeks to 'redeem' Løvborg, and the calculating Judge Brack, who desires to exert power over her, she finds herself increasingly desperate to assert control and shape a destiny that feels uniquely her own, even if it means resorting to manipulation and destruction.