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Hedda (Queensland Theatre Company) ★★★★

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ABR Arts 19 November 2018

Hedda (Queensland Theatre Company) ★★★★

by
ABR Arts 19 November 2018

One of the quandaries facing contemporary adaptations of classics is the risk of the story being lost in a translation, which can isolate the work from the original culture and text. Melissa Bubnic’s reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (which had its première in Munich in 1891) runs no such risk. Directed by Paige Rattray, Hedda removes Ibsen’s characters from nineteenth-century Norway and the world of academia and situates them in present-day Gold Coast on the deck of a ‘McMansion’. Although Hedda retains the original characters’ names, the setting is about as far away from Ibsen as you can imagine.

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Comment (1)

  • Great review. Now I have to see it!
    Posted by Maddie
    21 November 2018

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