Hedda | Play

Hedda is a pluralistic portrait of women. Starting from the work by Henrik Ibsen, Aurore Fattier’s Hedda immerses us in the last days of Hedda Gabler’s rehearsals. Laure Stijn, a middle-aged director from a large family of artists, tackles the work of the Norwegian playwright. The increasingly disturbing memories of her sister, Esther, a young actress who died fifteen years earlier, punctuate the course of her work. It is this unexpected, dizzying path that we follow her on until her show comes to fruition. Bolstered by a renowned European cast, Aurore Fattier offers a theatrical and cinematic reinterpretation of this play from 1890. Hedda approaches this classic, which could be a contemporary work, and holds up a mirror that shows us the difference between the real violence that women endure and the way it is idealised in our cultural staples. In its world première, Hedda deconstructs overbearing male standards and asks the question: ‘What are our classics about?’

Audio: FR
Subtitles: EN, DE, ES, HR, IT, PL, PT, SE

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