Theater Discussion: Ibsen’s Audience Talks Back: the Yale Rep’s Hedda with Joe Roach
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About this event
It will soon be a month and a full holiday season since Joe Roach and Paul Walsh led us in a lively and at times controversial discussion of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In an effort to avoid spoilers many of the key incidents and the play were not discussed in that first session. On January 6 at 4pm, Joe has graciously agreed to return to the HomeHaven/Koerner Center "stage".
Now that we have all (or mostly all) seen the play at Yale Rep we can have a full discussion of what we saw. Joe will have some opening comments and invite us to share our responses and reactions. Among the issues raised in December that we can now consider are: was Hedda a cruel nasty woman or a victim of her times? Was this a melodrama? Was there message in her final act or was it an emotional impulse? If a message, what was it? Who was to blame? Was she pregnant? Paul Walsh translated Hedda's earlier relationship as "assault" in its current sense. Does that impact how we see her? What does the full production stimulate us in thinking about women today, in New Haven and in what is coming to us from Washington. Join Us!
Open to Members of HomeHaven and Koerner Center.
On Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84630672338?pwd=FdkpNQBgF1UhzXX3VX7QsCHjS22XEh.1
Script: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by Paul Walsh.
Another viewpoint: Director Nia DaCosta's film adaptation with Tessa Thompson as Hedda is currently streaming on Prime Video.
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