A HEDDA GABLER
Red Tape Theatre will produce the Midwest premiere of A HEDDA GABLER, adapted and with translations by Chicago-based playwright Nigel O’Hearn. O’Hearn distills the action of Ibsen’s text, placing greater focus on the inner conflict that drives Hedda to extremes. Newly married and returned from her honeymoon, Hedda finds herself ensnared by social circumstances and surrounded by reminders of her oppression. Her attempts to manipulate her oppressors and reclaim personal agency only serve to reveal the inescapability of her plight. With inventive staging by Artistic Director Max Truax, Red Tape’s production of A HEDDA GABLER will portray the world as Hedda sees it – starkly formal, suffocatingly rigid and entirely unjust.