New Production of HEDDA GABLER to Give Away Free Tickets, Opens 8/10

Former Co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company, John Gould Rubin is staging a unique production of Hedda Gabler. Beginning on Tuesday, August 10th and running thru Saturday, September 4, Rubin and his team have placed his production in an elegant downtown townhouse. By having the audience and actors mingle in this rarified environment, the play's central themes and intimacies are lived out by the audience, with each action reverberating well beyond the traditional boundaries of a more conventional production.

Caitlin FitzGerald plays the title character with Emily Best, Burke Adams, Thom Christensen, Zach LeVey, Lindy Rogers and Suellen Vance completing the cast.

This new adaptation of Hedda Gabler is by Royston Coppenger. While the setting of the drama is indeed the grand town house visited by the audience, the play has a set design by Chris Barreca and Andreea Mincic, costumes by Hollie Nadel, lights by Nicole Pearce, sound by Elizabeth Rhodes and original music by Daniel Harnett.

Tickets are Free for this exclusive, limited engagement. Due to the expected high demand for tickets and the extremely limited amount available, we will not tell you where this performance is being housed. To get that information you must be one of the few who are able to secure reservations. The exact address for the performance will be provided to each reserving audience member upon confirmation of his or her reservation.

Hedda Gabler is performed Tuesday August 10 -Friday August 13 at 7:30pm, and Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 7pm from August 19th thru September 4th.

To request tickets please visit http://heddagablernyc.com/

What can be disclosed at this time is director Rubin's thoughts about his production. "In 18 hours, the period covered by the play, through an array of barely cloaked efforts by all to control and devour Hedda, she discovers that a life she thought was interesting and varied is actually impoverished, mundane, inelegant and weak. She lashes out at all around her.

I want the audience to witness this war, to thrill to its victories and weep at the losses as if in battle themselves, and so I've had the idea of creating a world in which the audience lives within the battle. The concept of making this show site-specific is intended to afford the opportunity to create an utterly realistic world while allowing the audience to feel wholly within it so acutely that they endure the guilt of their own voyeurism."

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