Hedda Gabler Brian Friel's adaption of Henrik Ibsen's classic play
Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied from a long honeymoon. Bored by her
aspiring academic husband, she forsees a life of tedious convention.
And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she
begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating
effect.
"Brian Friel’s new version, taking liberties that only
a master playwright might – invests Ibsen’s social realist original,
with psychological realism, presenting the harridan’s gradual mental
breakdown as a consequence of an entirely inflexible social milieu ..."
The Irish Times
THU 23 - SAT 25 FEB 2012 8.15PM Draíocht Studio // €15 / €12 conc
