Nicole Kidman Eyes West End Mounting of Hedda Gabler

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Will Nicole Kidman make a return the stage in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler? According to The Evening Standard, the Academy Award winner will appear in a West End production of the classic drama in the spring or summer of 2006.
Kidman is one of Hollywood's hottest actresses. Her film credits include Dead Calm, Flirting, Far and Away, To Die For (for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical), Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge (which earned her another Golden Globe), The Hours (for which she earned an Academy Award and her third Golden Globe), Birthday Girl, The Human Stain, Cold Mountain, The Stepford Wives, Birth, The Interpreter and Bewitched.


Kidman made an impression on Broadway in the hit 1998 production of The Blue Room. Kidman starred in the David Hare play in both London and New York, earning a Theatre World Award for her performance. In recent years, she has been rumored for many theatrical projects--among them Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From The Sea, Sam Mendes repertory productions of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night and a Broadway revival of The Philadelphia Story. However, her busy schedule made appearing in the shows impossible.

Hedda Gabler, written in 1891, tells the story of a woman whose explosive struggle to survive alters the lives of those around her as the fire inside her burns to a tragic end. American Daniel Kramer will likely helm this production of Hedda Gabler.

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Last year, I said that Kidman would make a fantastic Hedda. If she does this show, I'm going to the UK!

Updated On: 9/22/05 at 02:50 PM

Love her.

Exactly. She was born to play Nora. And I love the idea of Blanchett as Hedda.

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Kidman, Moore, and Blanchett could easily get me to see 3 diff versions of Hedda Gabler, Doll's House, Streetcar, Medea, etc etc etc!

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I'd love to see Kidman play Hedda Lettuce.

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There has just been a very successful mounting of Hedda Gabler in London, which started in a subsidised theatre and moved to the West End. So wherever she does it, it will be heavily compared to it. What a shame her name can't go to support a new play or something rarer.

OK, I really can't resist this. I am not a big Kidman fan. Used to like the drama she did, but she's been overexposed and she's worn thin in my opinion so to borrow a line from Dedication as uttered by Edward the chauffeur: "I saw a play once...Hedda Gabler...I wanted to shoot her, long before she shot herself"

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'Dogville' was very theatrical, more so than a film. Nicole is fantastic in that role, she thoroughly deserved a second oscar. It was only because Lars Von Trier's name was credited to the film that the Academy over-looked it.
I think Nicole's style of acting is very suited to the theatre, as her performances are solid, consistent and controlled. Ok, she may do the odd comic performance, but you need alittle light-relief in your life at times.
I hope this is true. I can't wait to see her in the leading role.

as her performances are solid, consistent and controlled.

Agreed.

Of course I think Kidman is one of the most overrated actresses of the past couple of years and I have never been impressed with anything I've seen from her

STRONGLY disagree.

unless they want a Hedda who whispers the whole time.

What?