"Hedda" — Read The Screenplay Nia DaCosta
Desire, Power, and the Art of Self-Destruction.
From Amazon/MGM, "Hedda" (2025) transforms Henrik Ibsen’s classic play into a blistering character study of identity, control, and rebellion. Written and directed by Nia DaCosta, the film follows Hedda Gabler, a woman trapped in marriage, class, and her own contradictions as she manipulates, seduces, and self-destructs in an elegant house built like a cage. DaCosta’s script is lush, psychological, and unflinching, turning drawing-room dialogue into warfare and giving new context to one of literature’s most enigmatic women.
"Hedda" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Rewriting Repression: How Nia DaCosta Turns Classic Tragedy into Modern Fury.
Nia DaCosta’s "Hedda" reanimates Ibsen’s masterpiece with new blood... and a loaded gun. What was once a 19th-century tragedy becomes a modern fable about power, performance, and the cost of being exceptional in a world designed to punish exceptional women. In DaCosta’s hands, repression becomes rage, and the drawing room becomes a battlefield.
Hedda (2025) — Classroom Study
Nia DaCosta’s "Hedda" reimagines Ibsen’s 1890 tragedy for a new century -- one where gender, class, and identity remain cages, only gilded differently. In this version, Hedda Gabler isn’t just bored or bitter; she’s brilliant, trapped by the expectation to perform femininity, intellect, and composure simultaneously. For students, "Hedda" offers a blueprint for modernizing classic literature, balancing reverence with reinvention, and crafting psychological tension through character control, subtext, and self-destruction.
- Adaptation without imitation.
- Gender, race, and the politics of space.
- Dialogue as disguise.
- The performance of control.
- Modern tragedy through aesthetic precision.
"Hedda" One Sheet & Script Intel
Hedda finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal. Amazon/MGM
| Type | ... |
ORIGINAL
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| Version | ... | FinalYellow Revisions |
| Date | ... | 02.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 105 |
| Genres | ... | Drama Romance Thriller |
| Screenplay | ... | Nia DaCosta |
| IMDb ID | ... | 27953589 |
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