Hedda Gabler

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Blending tragedy and comedy together in the most disconcerting manner, the mordant wit of Ibsen’s play is still as compelling and as daring as its intriguing heroine. In a world of sexual and emotional repression, no other heroine can defy audience expectations as completely as Hedda. Aristocratic psychopath with pistol? Or woman determined to define herself - herself alone?

Hedda Gabler was written by Henrik Ibsen and will be presented in the main auditorium at The Mission Theatre for five evening performances: Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2008 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available at £9 (£7 concessions) from the Next Stage Box Office on 01225 428600 (email: nextstagebath@aol.com).

Continuing Next Stages popular Page-to-Stage workshops, the company has announced there will be one of these events linked to this production of Hedda Gabler. Click here for more information.

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Cast rehearsal photos Click on the thumbnail for an enlarged image

The Cast
	This is Jeff's second appearance at The Mission having appeared previously as Henry Ormonroyd in Ad Hoc's production of When We Are Married. Jeff has been involved in local drama for many years and has undertaken several challenging roles, including: Adam in Someone To Watch Over Me, Aston in The Caretaker and Claudius in Hamlet. His only other appearance in an Ibsen play was as Arnholm in Bath Drama's production of The Lady from the Sea.
Jeff Hughes
George Tesman

	After an apparently rocky start as a cherub in her Primary School Nativity, Lindsey Peters has worked extensively with Shakespeare Live, Small Moving Parts and briefly for Playing Up as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. Her most recent role was as Anna in The Yalta Game for the Mission Theatre.
Lindsey Peters
Hedda Tesman

	Marion has been a member of Next Stage for 10 years. She started acting at the age of 18 when she was invariably cast as old ladies. Now she is still cast as old ladies, but she is, at least, in the right age-range! Her first part with Next Stage was as Madame Xenia, the eccentric medium in The Killing of Sister George and she has subsequently played several dotty old girls including Evelyn in Amys View, Alan Bennett's mum in The Lady in the Van and Adrian Mole's grandma
Marion Wood
Miss Juliana Tesman

	Caroline has been performing in plays and musicals since the age of 7. She studied Drama through the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and completed her LAMDA Gold in Acting before jetting off to University where she performed with the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Society for three years. Since moving to Bath in 2002 she has worked both on and off the stage for many a theatre company including Shakespeare Live, Bath Drama and Playing-Up. Her most recent theatre credits include: Lilly in Under Milk Wood, Bolette in Lady from the Sea, Bertram Beauregard in the Bath Drama Panto - Beauty and the Beast, Julie-Ann in Roleplay, Annie in Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance and Rosa in Trumpets and Raspberries. This is her first time performing at the Mission Theatre.
Caroline Foulds
Mrs Elvsted

	Ian has enjoyed the challenge of playing roles in many different genres. Recently, these have included Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi, Gerald in JB Priestley's When We Are Married, and Caliban in The Tempest. After moving to Bath in 2006, he was delighted to join Next Stage, and is a member of their Theatre In Education team, delivering workshops to students of various ages. This is his first performance at the Mission Theatre.
Ian Garforth
Eilert Lovborg

	Having embarked upon this production as a director, not an actor, John was surprised to find that actors willing to tackle the role of Brack had little staying power (“to lose one is forgivable, to lose five is a Greek tragedy of some kind “) – but the team quickly adapted to their actor-director in the role of Brack and have enjoyed the ensemble challenge of making Hedda work within a thrust stage setting. Last season John acted a series of randy old bastards for Next Stage – Alec and Merric in Abandonment, Gurov in The Yalta Game – but all of these were just a preparation for Brack, he claims.
John Reid
Judge Brack

	Valerie makes her Next Stage debut with this play, but has been in the drama world since the age of 16, in many different roles both front and back stage, in many different places. More recent parts include Aunt Abby in Arsenic and Old Lace, Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, the Wife of Bath in Canterbury Tales, and Nora in Alphabetical Order. She has also recently been trying to learn to act with Bristol University's Drama Dept., which has confused her utterly.
Valerie Lorenz
Berta

The Director

	John Reid is a principal lecturer in drama at UWE where much of his time is spent inducting students into the diverse challenges of 19^th and 20^th C European drama. This is the first Ibsen production he has directed. “Ibsen is always subtler than you think. It’s a well-oiled plot, well-constructed theatrical machine but, sadly, it’s so much better than that stereotype – it is so much more than the well-made play that Brecht despised.”
John Reid Director

The Cast

The Director