hedda

with support from Farnham Maltings no strings attached grant

Written by Eve Allin

Directed by Selwin Hulme-Teague

Designed by Grace Lovegrove

Performed by Hetty Melrose, Rishi Soneji, Joe Matty, and George Chopping

Produced by Nettle Theatre

Hedda is about classic texts, stardom, sex, and Blondie. It’s about confession, seduction, and Debbie Harry. It’s about all the things you wished you could say out loud and all the things you know you shouldn’t do.

Hedda is a re-working of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’. Inspired by companies such as Dead Centre and Rash Dash, it is set in a post-dramatic performance of the deconstructed Ibsen text. Three men lurk at Hedda’s sides, retelling her story, and correcting her grammar.

Hedda is an experiment in re-writing text and re-staging death.