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Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the
stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When
writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a
masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides
to take drastic and fatal action. Universally condemned in 1890
when it was written, Hedda Gabler has since become one of Ibsen's
most frequently performed plays. Its title role is elusive and
complex: Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, who has no
means of finding personal fulfilment in the stifling world of late
nineteenth-century bourgeois society. Too frightened of scandal to
become involved with a brilliant, wayward writer, she opts for a
conventional but loveless marriage in the hope of finding surrogate
satisfaction through her husband's career. Blending comedy and
tragedy disconcertingly together, Ibsen probes the thwarted
aspirations and hidden anxieties of his characters against a
background of contemporary social conditions and attitudes.
Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial
bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous
plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret,
and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to
bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta reimagines
Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British
colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes
of ownership and race.
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