Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Three
Time & Place
In the Tesmans' drawing room after a disastrous night out, Loevborg describes the lost manuscript through a nightmare image.
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Context
Loevborg speaks to Hedda after losing the
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Hedda – suppose a man came home one morning, after a night of debauchery, and said to the mother of his child: ‘Look here. I’ve been wandering round all night. I’ve been to – such-and-such a place and such-a-such a place. And I had our child with me. I took him to – these places. And I’ve lost him. Just – lost him. God knows where he is or whose hands he’s fallen into’.
Ibsen, Henrik, trans. Michael Meyer Hedda Gabler. Methuen Student Edition, 2002, p.83.
Performance Tips
- Treat the manuscript-child metaphor as
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Invent the Mother's Nightmare
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