Preview
Production Season
Fall 2011
Production Staff
By Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Larry Sutton
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Hedda Gabler" (2011). Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 30, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/30
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
In 1890 Henrik Ibsen created what many think is his most interesting and revealing study of a woman’s character – Hedda Gabler. The play is traditional in structure but breaks away from overly sentimental plays of the earlier 19th century and presents a world in which traditional social convention and morality appear inconsistent and irrelevant. The character of Hedda is a study of a frustrated, isolated woman striving to assert herself and control the world around her. Although she appears clever, assured, and proud, she lacks the inner strength to live independently of the world’s social and moral conventions.