Hedda Gabler
Americannoun
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Your castmate, Nina Hoss, said the role of Hedda Gabler is for women actors what Hamlet is for men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
So German actress Nina Hoss has actually played the title role of Hedda Gabler onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
She was the latter-day answer to Ibsen’s majestically discontented, hyperintelligent Hedda Gabler, a part she played both onstage and onscreen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“Someone once asked me, ‘So you’re an Ibsen expert?’” says Aune, who has directed most of the major plays, and is about to revive her ballet of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in Oslo.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2019
The butcher boy enjoys Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: why should he disbelieve my statement that others get pleasure from a performance of a Hedda Gabler, which would hardly appeal to him?
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham
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