Hedda - Reviews

...the grit beneath the opulent glamour of this estate is what makes spending an extended evening within its walls so exciting.

...a lush, 1950s-set fever dream.

...puts a queer spin on Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play Hedda Gabler.

...one of the more original and thrilling adaptations of a classic work in recent memory.

It’s darkly funny, more than a little grim, and yet consistently captivating to watch.

Thankfully, once all the unnecessary table-setting is out of the way, Hedda is a total thrill.

Thompson, who has appeared in three of DaCosta’s four features so far, makes a terrific bomb-throwing Hedda, who revels in her own fashion, wit, and provocations even as they cohere together as the product of her misery.

...if Hedda can't be happy, then no one can be happy. Sometimes, it feels like that extends to viewers as well.

...it is ridiculous, intense, despairingly sexual, inspired by Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Chekhov’s dictum about the gun produced in act one.