Hedda | Play

Hedda is a complete rewriting and appropriation project of the story and the question of the representation of the Heroine that is Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. A-C, a young female director of today, enjoying a certain notoriety, is the daughter of two mythical director and actress of the French new wave. The story begins when she is in the middle of rehearsals for Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, for which she is supposed to play the heroine and learns that she is pregnant. Can she still assume to embody the bourgeois and morbid portrait of this evil heroine who influenced Freud and modern psychoanalysis? She will try to get herself replaced, fearing that this fiction will harm the child she is carrying, and will finally not succeed in letting go of the role. We will witness her struggle, her loss, her victories, between the powerful and unmanageable legacy of her father, who gradually becomes amnesic and displays his cumbersome bits of artistic memory and her new relationship to her body and her femininity, thus placing her at the heart of time, between life and death, past and future, the art of theatre of our fathers and that of the future.

Direction: Aurore Fattier

Text: Mira Goldwicht and Sébastien Monfè (drawing on the plays Sonatine Stijn, by Goldwicht Monfè and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen)

Scenography: Marc Lainé in collaboration with Stéphane Zimmerli and Juliette Terreaux

With: Fabrice Adde, Delphine Bibet, Yoann Blanc, Carlo Brandt, Lara Ceulemans, Valentine Gérard, Fabien Magry, Annah Schaeffer, Alexandre Trocki, Maud Wyler Original music: Maxence Vandevelde

Video creation: Vincent Pinckaers

Light creation: Enrico Bagnoli

Camera operator: Gwen Laroche

Costume creation: Prunelle Rulens in collaboration with Odile Dubucq

Hair creation: Isabel Garcia Moya

Make-up creation: Sophie Carlier

Wardrobe : Anne-Sophie Vanhalle

Location manager: Dylan Schmit, taken over by Krispijn Schuyesmans

Stage manager: Emmanuel Savini

Light operator: Jean-François Bertrand

Video operator: Nicolas Gilson, taken over by Leo Diologent

Sound operator: Jérôme Mylonas

Artistic collaborators : Lara Ceulemans, Deborah Marchal

Production of set and costumes: Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège

Production of the play Théâtre de Liège et DC&J Création

With the support of Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral de Belgique and Inver Tax Shelter

Coproduction Solarium Asbl, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Royal de Namur, Théâtre de La Cité-Cdn Toulouse-Occitanie, Comédie de Valence-Cdn Drôme-Ardèche, Les Théâtres de la ville du Luxembourg, MARS Mons Arts de la Scène, Comédie de Reims, Prospero – Extended Theatre The play was recorded at La Comédie, Centre dramatique national de Reims

Film produced by Théâtre de Liège & La Compagnie des Indes

With the support of Prospero – Extended Theatre, cofounded by Creative Europe (EU)

Direction : Simranjit Singh

Delegate producer of the recording: La Compagnie des Indes

Producer : Gildas le Roux

Direction of productions: Emma Enjalbert

Production administrator : Sabine Drapied

Production assistant : Louise Colimar

Apprentice : Loïc Simon

Script : Christèle Tournemine

Director of photography: Vincent Pinckaers

Sound ingenier : Julien Chaumat

Camera operators : Malo Laffont, Régis Le Mao, Sylvain Pieri, Nicolas Pinchinot, Marine Tadié, Nicolas Zygmunt

Technical director and post-production responsible : Mathieu Hue

Edit : Simranjit Singh assisted by Malo Laffont and Nicolas Zygmunt

Mixing : Jean-Christophe Barras

Additional musics : Good god damn – Arcade Fire (Compositeur-Auteur et Interprète) Éditeur EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD Liquid sunshine – Biga Ranx (Auteur et Interprète) & Maxime Guiget (Compositeur) Éditeurs Lucien Entertainment, X-RAY Productions et Wagram Publishing

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