“Hedda Gabler,” Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play about an independent, ruthless spirit caged to a one-sided marriage of convenience, is one of the towering monuments of the theater. You can’t go far in that medium without glimpsing the title character, looming over the plays and heroines that emerged in her wake. Any new adaptation would struggle to capture the lightning Ibsen bottled with his original work, and it might be hard to imagine such well-worn material making the same impact nearly 150 years later. At least, that’s what I would have thought.
“Hedda,” Nia DaCosta’s exhilarating new adaptation, is an anxiety-inducing nightmare,…
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