Mass Media Adaptations
The play has been adapted for screen a number of times, from the silent film era of the early 1910s to the present day in several languages. In 1975, Glenda Jackson was nominated for an Academy Award as leading actress for her role in the British film adaptation Hedda.
Deborah Warner's version, with Fiona Shaw as Hedda Gabler and Stephen Rea as Ejlert Løvborg, was televised in 1993. Shaw's portrayal finds the hypersensitivity behind those cruelties of Hedda's which are often played without conscience. Shaw plays the requisite arrogance with which Hedda wounds those around her, but the immediate recriminations which she visits upon herself are even more harrowing.
An American film version released in 2004 relocated the story to a community of young academics in Washington state.
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