"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen

“At last, an act!” The line / outburst belongs to the most stonily rigid, self-destructively solitary, painfully inert heroine in world theater: Hedda Gabler. It certainly isn't by chance that Ibsen's masterpiece’s should take its title from the maiden name of its protagonist. Even though she marries the immature and socially and economically inferior Jørgen Tesmann, the fallen daughter of general Gabler would never let herself become Hedda Tesmann. The past, in the form of her unfulfilled love for the inspired and self-destructive academic, Ejlert Løvborg, will not lie quiet. Repressed desires, love triangles, the endless battle of the sexes, social hypocrisy, financial exchanges and blackmail are figure in a tumultuous plot which focuses on a society in crisis - a society like ours today.

The talented Michalis Konstantatos brings considerable experience gleaned during a distinguished film career to this collaboration with the charismatic Yota Argyropoulou, who plays the titular role. Together, they rework the play into a film script and transport it into the present day. An installation delimits a non-realistic environment and boxes in the players. In the role of Løvborg, Maximos Moumouris ignites the action... the countdown has begun. Who will be the last (wo)man standing?

An original idea was tried out during rehearsals: creative audience participation. A blog serving as the characters' diary and a specially designed educational program were employed to initiative a public dialogue about the work which shed a new and creative light on aspects of the directorial approach.