Hedda Gabbler at Draíocht

Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she forsees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect.

"Brian Friel’s new version, taking liberties that only a master playwright might – invests Ibsen’s social realist original, with psychological realism, presenting the harridan’s gradual mental breakdown as a consequence of an entirely inflexible social milieu ..." The Irish Times