Hedda Gabbler, ballet based on the eponymous play by Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabbler
ballet based on the eponymous play by Henrik Ibsen
to music by Nils Petter Molvær

Marit Moum Aune, director and choreography
Even Børsum, sets
Ingrid Nylander, costumes
Kristin Bredal, lights

Norwegian National Ballet
Hedda Gabler: Grete Sofie Borud Nybakken
Aunt Julie: Samantha Lynch
Eilert Lovborg: Silas Henriksen
General Gabler: Kristian Alm
Jorgen Tesman: Philip Currell
Assessor Brack: Shane Urton
Thea Elvsted: Eugenie Skilnand
Diana: Klara Martensson

Hedda Gabler is one of the best-known characters in the theater world - an icon created by Henrik Ibsen. Here, this deeply psychological game is transformed into a chamber ballet, created by director Marit Moum Aune and performed by Nils Petter Molvær.

Hedda is furious, because disappointment prevails. After a six-month honeymoon in Europe, she has now returned home to settle down with her husband, Jørgen - but nothing has turned out as she had planned. And when her former lover Eilert Løvborg enters the scene, she reacts in a way that proves perilous for everyone - including herself.

"I want for once in my life to have the power to shape a human destiny."

This is the second time that Marit Moum Aune has staged a play by Ibsen, having previously directed and choreographed Ibsen's Ghosts with Cina Espejord.