Hedda

“I don’t even know always what sets it off but when it happens, I’m not responsible for what I say or what I do.”

Arriving home after a long honeymoon Hedda struggles with coming to terms with marriage to a man she married for what she hoped would be financial security, not love, and moving into a new home she and her new husband cannot afford.

Brought up in a sheltered environment by a single parent, Hedda has yearned for years to grasp life by the throat and enjoy herself. Instead, she feels trapped. Buried alive with years of tedious, intolerable life ahead of her, she plots to break that tedium by the manipulation of those close to her with consequences over thirty-six hours which even she had not foreseen…

Written by Here To There Productions’ Company Director, Andrew Whittle, this exciting new interpretation of one of theatre’s most revered plays was hailed a triumph by both critics and audiences alike, enjoying a near sell-out run at The Coach House Theatre in Malvern.

It is a complex tale of female power, jealousy and manipulation, of drunkenness and sexual weakness, and of competition between the sexes that shocked audiences in the 1890s, yet still resonates today.