As West End Frame previously announced, Hedda Gabler, will open at The Old Vic on 12 September with previews from 5 September. The play will be Directed by Anna Mackmin, and will star Queen Of The West End, Sheridan Smith in the title role. Darrell D’Silva will play Judge Brack, Buffy Davis will play Bertha, Daniel Lapaine as Eilert Loevborg, Anne Reid as Juliana Tesman, Adrian Scarboroughas George Tesman, and Fenella Woolgaras Thea Elvsted.
Ibsen’s masterpiece on the conflict of the requirements of society and those of the individual explores the corrosive descent of Hedda Gabler into the treacherous void between expectation and reality. The general’s daughter has married the respectable academic Tesman - a husband she despises as mediocre – and now, driven by fear and loathing, Hedda’s despair goads her independent spirit to a rage expressed in the wilful contamination of life around her which eventually leads to disaster for her and all those beguiled by her.
