![]() ![]() ![]() Elvsted and her husband, a sheriff, welcomed Lövborg into their home as a tutor for their children. After Ejlert Lövborg’s fall from social grace, Mrs. Elvsted was once romantically involved with Jörgen Tesman. Elvsted, his helpmate and muse, so inflames Hedda’s jealousy that she at last sets about affecting Lövborg’s destruction. The despairing thing about Lövborg, as Ibsen has noted, is that he wants to control the world by seeing into its future, but he can’t even control himself. He is also, like Hedda herself, ill-adapted to modern life-in his case, he is unable to drink in moderation. Tesman’s rival for a prestigious professorship, Ejlert Lövborg is a visionary historian and sociologist. Tesman might be read in part as Ibsen’s sketch of the conventional bourgeois man in modern society. He talks constantly about the mundane details of his studies, he is sappily sentimental, and he is an anxious climber of the career ladder. For all that, however, he is also conventional, boring, mediocre, and sometimes even sappily sentimental. He is considered an outstanding member of his society, one destined to attain the highest social distinction. Tesman is Hedda’s husband and the holder of a University Fellowship in cultural history: he specializes in medieval domestic crafts. At the end of the play, to avoid scandal and escape the pettiness of bourgeois life, Hedda shoots herself with her father’s pistol. She behaves cruelly and destructively toward those around her while seeking to entertain and satisfy herself, going so far as to drive her comrade from adolescence, Ejlert Lövborg, to suicide. Hedda, the daughter of the great General Gabler and the pregnant wife of Jörgen Tesman, is a beautiful, aristocratic, intelligent woman, loaded with social grace and a steely, clear, dispassionate charisma. The Footlight Club welcomes and encourages qualified performers of all ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, genders, and body types to audition. The play consists of four acts that explore issues of power, control, and social expectation. Hedda Gabler is a heightened drama that crumbles into a costly end. Hedda finds pleasure in manipulating Lövborg into ruining both his career and his relationship with Mrs. Elvsted, and the brilliant but wayward writer Eilert Lövborg. Soon after, Hedda is reacquainted with an old school friend, Mrs. The play opens as Hedda and her academic husband, George Tesman, return from their honeymoon. Hedda plays out her own fantasies and psychological games with those nearest to her to an ultimately costly end. Hedda Gabler is restricted and bored by her new middle-class environment. Rehearsals are (tentatively) projected to run Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday with a time that best serves the cast. Rehearsals will be held via Zoom and begin the week of January 3rd-8th. If you have any questions regarding these policies, please email Rehearsals: No performer will be asked to meet in person unless they feel comfortable doing so and no casting decisions will be made based on a performers’ willingness. If health and safety guidelines and performers’ willingness allow, some aspects of this production may be filmed in advance. This means that all actors should expect to perform safely from the comfort of their own homes. Hedda Gabler will be a virtual production with possible pre-recorded elements. The primary concern of The Footlight Club is the health and safety of its performers, production staff, members, and friends. If you have any questions not addressed here, please email our team. Actors called back will be given sides to work on.Īll actors will be notified of casting results following callbacks. We may not hold callbacks, and if callbacks are held, not all roles require a callback.Īctors needed at callbacks will be notified by end of day on December 28th. Details to follow if you are called back. ![]() Some conflicts can be scheduled around if we know about them ahead of time.ĮMAIL your video submission, headshot, resume, and audition form in ONE email to no later than Sunday, December 27th, 2021, at 5:00pm EST.Ĭallbacks, if required, will be held on Wednesday, December 30th from 7:00-9:00pm on Zoom. Download the form and thoroughly fill out.īe sure to list your conflicts for the rehearsals and production period. Please fill out this audition form and list your conflicts for the rehearsal and production period. Please include a headshot and resume (if you have one) with your submission. Please film yourself performing this monologue Please complete the following steps to complete your video audition: We are accepting video auditions for this production. Performance Dates (this is a virtual/video production): The Footlight Club is happy to announce upcoming auditions for Henrik Ibsen’s great social drama Hedda Gabler. ![]()
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