‘Hedda’ Review: Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson Are A-Hedda the Game in Tantalizing Drama

‘Hedda’ Review: Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson Are A-Hedda the Game in Tantalizing Drama

It wasn’t broke. Nia DaCosta fixed it anyway. “Hedda Gabler,” Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play about an independent, ruthless spirit caged to a one-sided marriage of convenience, is one of the towering monuments of the theater. You can’t go far in that medium without glimpsing the title character, looming over the plays and heroines that emerged in her wake. Any new adaptation would struggle to capture the lightning Ibsen bottled with his original work,…

In 'Hedda', Tessa Thompson Is Black, Queer, Messy & Chaotic — It’s Exhilarating To Watch

This edition of What's Good is all about Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson and directed by Nia DaCosta, in theaters now and streaming on Prime Video on October 29. We also spoke to Thompson and DaCosta about the film.

Hedda Review — Nia DaCosta's Raucous Character Study of a Chaos Agent

Hedda asks a crucial question: what happens when you let a bisexual chaos agent throw an absolute rager? What is Hedda about? The bisexual chaos agent in Nia DaCosta’s raucous 50s-era bacchanal is Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson). Hedda is a prominent socialite and the wife of George Tesman (Tom Bateman), an intellectual seeking a professorship at a local prestigious university. The professorship would help George and Hedda maintain their wildly ex…