Hedda Gabler - Audio production performed by Juliet Stevenson & Michael Maloney & Philip Voss & Emma Fielding and full cast - 2 CDs

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Hedda Gabler, daughter of a deceased general, marries dull George Tesman
and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they
return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford

Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois

Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an academic post

After a drunken orgy, the manuscript of Lovborg�s treatise falls into her hands and she destroys it. Discovery traps her, her romantic ideas are shattered, and there seems only one way out of the net - the pistols of her father, the General

This first-rate audio production is directed by John Tydeman, ex-head of BBC Radio Drama
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