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1st look at Kirkwood's HEDDA
Tampa,
FL
Jobsite Theater has broken all-time sales records with
three of the first four plays in their 20th Anniversary Season,
ensuring that this will be their best season to date in every
category. The resident theater company of the Straz Center now
turns their eyes to Lucy Kirkwood’s Hedda, a gripping
modern-day adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler,
on stage in a North American professional premiere May 10
– Jun. 2, 2019.
Photo Credit: Pritchard
Photography
In
this completely updated version of Ibsen’s classic set in 21st-century
London, thrilling young British playwright Lucy Kirkwood reworks
the Hedda Gabler tale into a daring glimpse at her choices
from a woman’s point of view. Hedda (Emily Belvo), still mourning
the father she adored, returns from her honeymoon with a husband
(Christopher Marshall) she doesn’t love, to a flat they can’t
afford and a pregnancy she doesn’t want. Trapped by her past
and terrified by her future, bored by her life but too cowardly
to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three
men (Marshall, Joseph Michael-Kenneth, and Jon Van Middlesworth).
Ultimately, something has to give.
Photo Credit: Pritchard
Photography
Hedda
stars Emily Belvo (Hedda), Christopher Marshall (George), Joseph
Michael-Kenneth (Eli), Katie Miesner (Thea), Jon VanMiddlesworth
(Toby), and Katrina Stevenson (Julia) under the direction of
Stuart Fail with designs by Jo Averill-Snell (lights), Scott
Cooper (set), Katrina Stevenson (costumes), and Jeremy Douglass
(original compositions).
Hedda plays May 10 – Jun. 2, 2019
Tickets start at $29.50 and increase by performance
based on demand. (Purchase
Tickets Here)
Preview performances are May 8-9 at 8pm, with all tickets
starting at $18.00.
Hedda is also available as part of a season pass
for the remaining two shows of their season.
Rush tickets to individual performances for students, seniors,
military, and Theatre Tampa Bay members start at $18, and are
available on remaining seats as of 30 minutes prior to curtain
with cash and valid ID at the Straz Ticket Office window.
Photo Credit: Pritchard
Photography
Lucy
Kirkwood, FRSL (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature),
is an East London born playwright and regarded as one of Britain’s
best young voices. She won the prestigious PMA award in 2006
and is also the recipient of the Evening Standard Award, the
John Whiting Award, the Olivier Award, the Critics Circle Award,
and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her plays include Tinderbox,
The Children, NSFW, Chimerica (currently
airing on Britain’s Channel Four), and Mosquitos, She
wrote the Sky 1 series The Smoke and is a writer on the
Channel 4 program Skins.
More info on Hedda visit: https://www.jobsitetheater.org/hedda/