Australian Premiere
Schaubühne Berlin
(Germany)
“This is a production that blows the dust off a classic and
reveals it as a play for our own troubled times.”
The Telegraph (UK)
Hedda Gabler
For the first time, the acclaimed
Schaubühne Berlin – helmed
by directorial prodigy Thomas
Ostermeier – brings its awardwinning redefinition of theatre
to Melbourne, with a stylish,
modern take on Ibsen’s iconic
tale of entrapment and revenge.
“The inquiring intelligence of Ostermeier
finds a way to put a startling – and mordantly funny –
spin on the play. A dry comment on our unshockable age
that is actually, uh, shocking.”
The New York Times (USA)
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One of the most divisive and celebrated
of Europe’s directorial auteurs, Thomas
Ostermeier has made his name updating
and disrupting some of theatre’s most
hallowed texts. From an Othello mired
in the Dionysian excesses of a 1960s
Mediterranean nightclub to A Doll’s House
cast as the hyper-sexualised feuding of
a modern power couple, these are bold,
unwavering productions which jar us from
our theatrical complacency.
At this year’s Festival, Ostermeier returns
to the work of Ibsen, transplanting the
detached malevolence of Hedda Gabler into
a postmodern, digitised nightmare. Set