{"product_id":"9781780013138","title":"Hedda (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold new version of Ibsen's tragic masterpiece by an award-winning modern writer of \u003ci\u003eChimerica\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Lucy Kirkwood's version of \u003ci\u003eHedda Gabler\u003c\/i\u003e, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to present-day London, to startling effect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesn't want. Trapped by her past and terrified of her future, bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three men. And in the end, something has to give.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucy Kirkwood's \u003ci\u003eHedda\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in August 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'a Hedda for our times' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIbsen's 19th-century masterpiece relocated thrillingly to London 2008... Kirkwood makes us believe absolutely in this modern-day world of mountainous mortgages and bitchy academia' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152228040944,"sku":"9781780013138","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780013138_p0.jpg?v=1763710733","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780013138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}