A passionate supporter of women's issues and particularly insightful in observing female personality, Ibsen created a gallery of archetypal heroines, whose interpretation remains a continual subject of theatrical research to this day.

Madame Bovary of urban drama, as the fateful, vengeful, prisoner of an inflexible idealism Hedda Gabler has been characterized, is perhaps the most destructive of all.

The work was first presented in 1891. The present translation was made for the performance staged at the National Theatre directed by Nikaiti Kontouri in November 2004.