Another HEDDA from Roundabout

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:02pm

Added to Roundabout's schedule - a new "interpretation" of HEDDA GABLER, for the AA Theater in the winter.

Here's hoping that it's the Cate Blanchett production that played BAM.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:05pm

Aw, mom! HEDDA again????

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:11pm

What would this be, the third in the past 15 years?

Blanchett, Burton, the other one Roundabout did...

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:14pm

And the Elizabeth Marvel/Ivo Van Hove collaboration a couple of years ago. Not that the calcified patrons of the Roundabout would notice.


I say: BRING BACK STRINDBERG!

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:20pm

Just to clarify, it's not this winter, it's Winter 2009.

So... that's something, maybe?

EDIT: Oh that's right. January and February are part of Winter, aren't they?

Updated On: 6/20/08 at 05:20 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:25pm

I wonder who will be starring in it.

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:26pm

Anything that (hopefully) brings Cate Blanchett to Broadway is fine by me.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:36pm

Amen to that, BusterPhantom.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:47pm

Wouldn't it be something if they got Patricia Heaton?

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:54pm

I've always loved this play, which can bear repeated viewings/productions, partly because there's not really a "right" way to play the protagonist. It's the same thing with Hamlet -- endlessly fascinating and always open to reinterpretation and reevaluation.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:00pm

"the other one Roundabout did..."

Wasn't it 1994? Kelly McGillis. Wasn't that the one they set in the 1950s?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:03pm

Blanchett was fascinating; I'd happily see her again.

I just hope this thread doesn't devolve into that idiotic "But we just saw HEDDA three years ago" nonsense we've had to listen to about GYPSY.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:05pm

Thank you, Reginald. A masterpiece is a masterpiece is a masterpiece. And should be kept in front of the public, particularly younger people, to remind them of what brilliant theatre really is.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:42pm

Since I don't get the Cate Blanchett appeal, I'll suggest Mary Louise Parker for Hedda. I just think she'd be REALLY interesting.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:59pm

Martha Plimpton?

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:50pm

love Hedda, I could care less.

we're actually doing it at my school next season.

[LadyRosecoe]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:30pm

I'm no stranger to plays, but this is one classic that I've been waiting to see! Very excited over here.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:36pm

personally, i can't picture Mary Louise Park as Hedda. she's far too dead in her delivery....

[whatever2]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:23pm

a milquetoast addition to a milquetoast season ... brilliant casting (read: blanchett) would help, but im not sure it would save this choice.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:50pm

I blush to admit I have never seen Hedda. Here's my chance.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:56pm

I'd love to see Martha Plimpton, but I feel like they would go for a bigger name.