Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
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Hedda Gabler

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Narrator: Joshua Bitton, JD Cullum, Elizabeth Ruscio, Gregory Harrison, Jocelyn Towne, Karen Malina White, Shannon Holt

Unabridged: 1 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2019


Synopsis

Hedda and George have just returned from their honeymoon, but when her former lover Eilert appears with a brilliant new manuscript, George’s hopes for a professorship are dimmed. Hedda’s desperate dissatisfaction with her life leads to dangerous choices in this startling portrait of a woman hell-bent on destruction.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2019.

Directed by Debbie Devine
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Josh Bitton as Eilert Lovborg
JD Cullum as George Tesman
Gregory Harrison as Judge Brack
Shannon Holt as Aunt Julie Tesman
Elizabeth Ruscio as Berta
Jocelyn Towne as Hedda Gabler
Karen Malina White as Mrs. Thea Elvsted

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Brian Wallace
Production Manager: Elena Cruz
Editor: Neil Wogenson

About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder. Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen’s work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on November 06, 2023

Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen’s work Hedda Gabler, introduced me to one of my favourite female leads in recent memory. What a complex (and painful) character she was. Hedda is an unhappily newly married woman who has just returned to Oslo after a European honeymoon. It’s clear she was bored witl......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 21, 2021

We read this in high school. We were sixteen, what did we know? Fifty years later it is the most awesome work. Godzilla loosed upon the innocent villagers. They don’t stand a chance. Stomp. Crash. Kaboom. It’s so cool. Go monster!......more