Hedda review - Ibsen meets Downton Abbey in Nia DaCosta’s exotic rendering of classic play

October 22, 2025

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The Guardian

High society in 1950s Britain is the setting in which the free-spirited but manipulative Hedda marries for money. Cue jaded pleasure and absurdity

Nia DaCosta, known for her satirical horror Candyman from 2021, has now created an exotic melodrama; it is ridiculous, intense, despairingly sexual, inspired by Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Chekhov’s dictum about the gun produced in act one. It’s a fever... [2085 chars]

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