Review: Hedda Gabler by Broke Thespian's Theatre Company

by Michael Meigs
Published on November 03, 2021

On reflection, it occurred to me that in this bare-bones production the audience was perceiving the imagined world as Hedda Gabler must be seeing it; their viewpoint was from within her disturbed mind.

Ibsen was in the habit of shaking up the bourgeoisie, especially in the latter half of his 40-plus year career as theatre manager and playwright. Hedda Gabler (1891) is in some ways an extension of ideas in his A Doll's House, (1879), which concludes with Nora, a respectable married woman, walking out on her husband and children. In this play the titular Hedda Gabler, daughter of old General Gabler, is initially referred to only as …

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