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Beautiful, icy and pathologically destructive, Hedda Gabler—the title character of Ibsen’s deeply psychological drama—is one of the most riveting and disturbed women ever brought to life on stage. Married to the dull professor George Tesman, she meticulously plans the ruin of the young scholar Eilert Løvborg by exploiting his weakness for drink, burning his life’s work and making him a gift of one of her dueling pistols—an act with terrible consequences. Hedda’s cruel intentions veer off course when a judge as cold and calculating as she is threatens to expose her true self. A character tragedy unlike any other in modern drama, Hedda Gabler is the great dramatist’s most controlled and ruthless work, a play whose impact has not lessened since its premiere in 1890. Michael Kahn directs Judith Light in her Shakespeare Theatre debut.

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Judith Light*
Hedda Gabler

Michael Rudko*
George Tesman

Ruby Holbrook*
Juliana Tesman

Dee Pelletier*
Thea Elvsted

Thomas Jay Ryan*
Eilert Løvborg

Robin Gammell*
Judge Brack

Prudence Barry
Berta

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Michael Kahn
Director

Walt Spangler
Set Designer

Murell Horton
Costume Designer

Amy Appleyard
Lighting Designer

Adam Wernick
Composer

Martin Desjardins
Sound Designer

Ellen O’Brien
Voice and Text Coach

Karen Oberthal
Stage Manager

Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter, Howard Meltzer, C.S.A.
Casting Directors

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