Eighty years after the Gate’s inaugural production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, it celebrates its birthday with a wonderful new version, by Brian Friel, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Idealistic heroine or manipulative villain, the character of Hedda is one of the great dramatic roles in theatre and has become known as the ‘female Hamlet’.

As she struggles to come to terms with a marriage to a man she finds numbingly dull and a pregnancy that threatens to seize hold of her body and future, Hedda quickly realises that the roots of convention run deep and, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, begins to indulge in evil games, manipulating the fate of all who enter her orbit.

'Electrifying …a revolutionary production' Irish Independent

'Haunting …a master playwright' Irish Times

'* * * * Magnificent…a vibrant production of a fine new version' Irish Daily Mail

'There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses' The Times

'Triumphant…superb…faultless' Sunday Independent

'* * * * Brilliant…powerful' Irish Mail on Sunday

WITH
Justine Mitchell   Susan Fitzgerald   Peter Hanly   Andrea Irvine   John Light   Billie Traynor   Andrew Woodall  

Director Anna Mackmin
Designer Lez Brotherston
Lighting Designer Oliver Fenwick
Composer Denis Clohessy