Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen presented by Quotidian Theatre Company at Writer's Center

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street Bethesda

The magnetic and mysterious Hedda Gabler, stifled by society's coventions, has captivated audiences since she sprang from Ibsen's imagination in 1890. Her perplexing machinations find the perfect home in Washington, D.C.'s politically-charged Georgetown of 1963 in this new adaptation by Michael Avolio.

Presented by Quotidian Theatre Company

Thru - Nov 23, 2014

Price: $30

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 2 hours, 30 mins; one intermission

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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...This Hedda (Katie Culligan) snarks and sneers like the mean girl in a teen movie. Her coldness and cowardice, her revulsion at the prospect of motherhood, her self-loathing, her boredom, her laziness, her sexless flirting exist in the script — much of it not that different from a more traditional translation — but are played all on the surface."

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- Jane Horwitz

DC Theater Arts - Recommended

"...The emotionally ambiguous, deeply layered and mysterious Hedda Gabler whom one could argue is a victim as much as anti-heroine, is more narrowly defined in the new Michael Avolio adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Leaving a striking impression, Avolio serving also as the Director, transports the action of the masterwork from Oslo, Norway in 1890 to Georgetown, D.C. in 1963. Inviting although tonally different than the classic, Hedda Gabler opens Quotidian Theatre Company’s 17th season and credit goes to QTC Co-Founder Stephanie Mumford for conceiving the move to the Sixties."

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- Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

DCTheatreScene - Somewhat Recommended

the execution is wanting. Minus the original’s Victorian conventions binding its overeager appetite, the play’s soap-opera plotting becomes magnified into trashy tabloid-sized absurdity.

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- Roy Maurer

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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen presented by Quotidian Theatre Company at Writer's Center