Further casting announced for HEDDA at Theatre Royal Bath
Further casting has been announced for HEDDA, a reimagining of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, which plays in Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from 25 July-23 August.
Joining the previously announced Lily Allen, who stars as the enigmatic and destructive Hedda Gabler, will be Imogen Stubbs (Clybourne Park, Park Theatre), Ciaran Owens (The Interview, Park Theatre), Julia Chan (2:22 A Ghost Story), and Tom Austen (Grantchester), with further casting to be announced.
Returning from her honeymoon and already bored with her marriage, Hedda finds herself shattered by a destructive attraction to a seemingly brilliant but dissolute writer and blackmailed by a predatory older man. Suffocated and betrayed by these violent forces, there is only one choice left to her.
The creative team is led by sought-after director and writer Matthew Dunster, former Associate Director of Shakespeare’s Globe and the Young Vic, and nominee of multiple Olivier and Tony Awards. The team also includes set and costume designer Anna Fleischle, lighting designer Ian Dickinson, sound designer Lucy Carter, and casting director Heather Basten.