New National Theatre of Tokyo Opens Season with HEDDA GABLER, September 2010

HEDDA GABLER is a play that new Artistic Director Miyata Keiko of the New National Theatre of Tokyo has had on both the front and back burner for years. It will be the opening production of her first season as Artistic Director this September through October, 2010. Miyata is working on a new translation from the original Norwegian of what is considered by many to be the most modern of Ibsen's plays.

Tickets go on sale July 19. Seat A seats are available for 6,300 and Seat B seats are available for 3,150. To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am - 6:00pm). To order tickets online, please visit http://ent-nntt.pia.jp/index.html.

Hedda Gabler is a general's daughter who looks to be living a freewheeling life of luxury, but who at the same time harbors feelings of unease, discontent, and an unspeakable impatience. The play offers insight into differences in cultural background, through her interaction with the other main characters: Ejlert Løvborg, a brilliant scholar of cultural history; her husband, Jørgen Tesman; and Judge Brack. The characters' approach to life and the relationships among them make this a work that resonates strongly with us today, living as we do in a society that is tending toward increased self-centeredness and reclusiveness. By coincidence, the complete works (definitive editions) of Ibsen were published in Norway in December 2009. The definitive edition is being studied in the process of developing the script for this fall production, and Keiko's hope is to present the play afresh as a modern HEDDA GABLER.

HEDDA GABLER was published in December 1890 (released simultaneously in Scandinavia, France, Great Britain, America, Russia and the Netherlands), and was first performed at Munich's Residenztheater in January the following year. In February it premiered in Norway at the Christiania Theatre. Since then, it has been performed in countries worldwide.

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