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Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nia DaCosta's HEDDA to Premiere at TIFF Before Streaming on Prime Video
If you're as movie-addicted as I am, with pearl-clutching for period dramas and sleepless nights over A24 teaser promos, then clear your schedule and drain your emotional warehouse. Nia DaCosta's HEDDA, the incendiary modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, premieres at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). And trust us, it's coming for your throat. After TIFF, the emotional quake hits Prime Video worldwide on October 29, 2025, in time for a psychologically chilling Halloween. HEDDA is not a film. It's a state of mind. It's a silk malfunction. It's women's fury encased in designer stilettos and ready to blow. And darling, it's going to be fabulous. You might know DaCosta from Candyman (2021) or as the first Black woman to direct a Marvel movie (The Marvels). With HEDDA, DaCosta is making history. She's writing, directing, and producing, and she's bringing Ibsen's 1891 play back down to electrifying contemporaneity and unstoppable sensuality. This is not your high school English class's Hedda Gabler. This is a woman hemmed in by the most cinematic possible means. We can leave it at that and applaud the cast to their feet because Tessa Thompson is Hedda. That's all. That's the news. Thompson, also the director, is a depth-feeling actress. Despite Sylvie's Love for Passing, she's been built for an acting role like that. In HEDDA, she's described as having a raw, feverish, downright enchanting performance. Hedda, as played by Tessa, is a woman suffocating beneath suffocating social conformity and gendered constraint, dressing herself in elegance as a disguise until she no longer does, from early word about individuals involved in the play. She's ably supported and encouraged by a cast who are literally glowing on paper. Imogen Poots is a catastrophe at all times in the best way Tom Bateman, whose cheekbones will need to have their own agent Nicholas Pinnock, with brooding screen intensity Nina Hoss, the German force of nature, you saw blow your mind in TÁR Devouring an entire long, lingerable night, HEDDA is full of that slow-build-key tension we snack on like gourmet popcorn. Bottled-up passion? Check. Old flame rekindled to burn again everywhere? Check. Mind games, manipulation, and women on the brink? Triple check. The trailer for 'A Whirlpool of Manipulation, Passion, and Betrayal' has my shrink prepped with the Kleenex, ahead of time. If you're a true cinephile, you already know a movie's as iconic as its department heads are. And HEDDA's got creds. Score by Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl) has you feeling every string section personally like it's an insult. Cinematography by Sean Bobbitt, BSC (12 Years a Slave, Widows) promises shadows, close-ups, and emotional destruction. Cutting by Jacob Schulsinger (The Worst Person in the World) promises no beat will be missed. Cara Brower's Production Design (The Menu) is recreated into the interiors, more lavish than Hedda herself. Lindsay Pugh's Costume Design (The Crown) is shouting period-present elegance, crying 'rich, miserable, and emotionally fraying.' TIFF is not a film festival. It is an awards-season barometer. That HEDDA is opening there speaks volumes about one thing loudly and clearly. Amazon and Plan B can smell Oscars. And I vow, DaCosta and Thompson walk into the Dolby Theatre next year with their names on ballot cards. October 29, 2025. That's when HEDDA premieres on Prime Video, and that's when your group chat becomes a raging debate about ethics, feminism, and whether Hedda is a villain or a victim. (She's both. That's the point.) Light a candle. Have a glass of red wine. Get ready to untangle. It's not a film. It's an audit. The post Nia DaCosta's HEDDA to Premiere at TIFF Before Streaming on Prime Video appeared first on Where Is The Buzz | Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive Interviews & More.
Chicago Tribune
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Elgin News Digest: Park district adds pre-concert demos to summer concerts; U-46's production of ‘Man of La Mancha' opens Thursday
Dundee Township Park District will offer demonstrations of two of the programs it offers prior to its 7 p.m. Tuesday summer concerts in July. Each will start at 6 p.m. and last 45 minutes. They include: For the full schedule of concerts, go to The School District U-46 summer theater production of 'Man of La Mancha' will run Thursday through Saturday, June 26-28, at the Streamwood High School auditorium, 701 W. Schaumburg Road. More than 75 students and employees from across the district's five high schools make up the cast, musicians and technical crew for the musical, according to a U-46 newsletter. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and noon Saturday. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online through Booktix or at the door. The Janus Theatre Company opens its 27th season with 'The Ibsen Project: Hedda,' running Friday through Sunday, June 27-29, at the Elgin Arts Showcase, 164 Division St. Actors will perform Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' with scripts in hand, according to the Janus website. For an added twist, each performance will feature a different translation of the Norwegian playwright's work. The production is part of this year's 'Season of Outsiders' and features classic stories from the past brought to life for today's audiences, the website said. It is sponsored in part by the city of Elgin and Elgin Cultural Arts Commission. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10. For tickets, go to For more about Janus' season, go to Duke's Blues Fest will be held from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 27, and noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 28, in Carpenter Park, 275 Maple Ave., Carpentersville. In addition to live music music, the annual free festival will feature various food vendors, including southern cuisine, according to the event's social media post. Money raised goes to benefit nonprofit Taste the Love. Acts scheduled to perform Friday are Guitar Tony, Topeka Smith, The Johnsons, Michael Charles, Gloria and Ruth Ward and Tammy's Blues & Soul. Saturday's lineup will feature Blues Hart, The Cat Gaddis Project, Luke RePass, Carlisle Guy, the NuBlu Band and Sharay Reed. For more information, call 224-699-9030. Illinois' prairie ecosystems will be the topic of a Geneva Natural Resources Committee lecture at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the Geneva Public Library, 227 S. Seventh St. A Geneva Park District naturalist from Peck Farm Park will discuss the common characteristics of Illinois prairies and examine the different plants and animals found in prairies and methods land managers use to preserve them, event organizers said. The program is free but registration is recommended. For more information, go to the Geneva Public Library District's website,
Irish Independent
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Frank McGuinness: ‘I fell in love with Elizabeth Bennet and Huck Finn – they are brilliant, defiant and good for the exercise of body and mind'
Frank McGuinness was born in Co Donegal in 1953 and now lives in Dublin. He has written 16 plays including Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Carthaginians and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, and 20 adaptations of European classics. His version of Ibsen's A Doll's House won a Tony award.
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Alicia Vikander will make her theatre debut in London opposite Andrew Lincoln in ‘The Lady from the Sea'
The Bridge Theatre has had a big juicy hole in its programming for some months now, smack bang between the imminent return of Nicholas Hytner's ecstatic immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jordan Fein's revival of Sondheim's immortal Into the Woods. We'd hoped a starry play with an interesting director might plug the gap, and lo! It has come to pass. In a busy year for Ibsen adaptations – following the Lyric Hammersmith's Ghosts, the Ewan McGregor-starring My Master Builder and a Lily Allen-led spin on Hedda Gabler over in Bath – auteur Aussie director Simon Stone will put his own spin on The Lady from the Sea. And he's got some heavyweight leads in the shape of Andrew Lincoln and – in her stage debut – Academy Award-winning Swedish actor Alicia Vikander. Ibsen's 1889 drama concerns Ellida, a woman who has settled for a comfortable life that is shaken to the core when an old lover re-emerges. As with all Simon Stone's works – most famously his Billie Piper-starring West End hit Yerma – the play is a modern interpretation that he himself has adapted and directed, so it's hard to say precisely what details of the original will be retained, but he should do something pretty enthralling with it. Vikander is a prolific screen actor best known for playing Lara Croft in the 2018 version of Tomb Raider and for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in 2015's The Danish Girl. Lincoln was a regular on UK stages before finding major US success with The Walking Dead. Technically his last London stage role was playing Scrooge at the Old Vic's A Christmas Carol in 2020, though the show was performed in front of webcams in an empty theatre due to the pandemic. Vikander will play Ellida, and Lincoln her husband Edvard (whether the family name remains Wangel is TBC). There's a third major role of Ellida's dangerous ex-lover – in Ibsen simply called The Stranger – that is still to be cast, but all will presumably be revealed soon-ish. The show goes on general sale May 13, and you'll be able to .
BBC News
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Alicia Vikander: Oscar winner to make UK theatre debut in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea
Oscar winner Vikander returns to stage after 17 years Just now Share Save Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Share Save Jason Bell Simon Stone (centre) will direct the production, starring Andrew Lincoln (left) and Alicia Vikander Actress Alicia Vikander is set to make her UK theatre debut in a new production of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, producers have confirmed. It will mark the Oscar winner's first stage role of any kind for 17 years, following a successful run of film and TV performances. The production will play at London's Bridge Theatre for eight weeks from 10 September, organisers announced on Wednesday. Vikander told BBC News she was "thrilled" to be returning to theatre, but added it was a "daunting thing to do... it's my first time on stage as an adult". The play has been adapted and directed by Simon Stone, and will also star The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln. Speaking from her home in north London, Vikander recalled the influence the theatre had on her when she was younger. "I grew up being at the theatre a lot, my mother [Maria Fahl] was a stage actress, and I think even when I was dreaming of becoming an actress myself, being on stage was the journey that I kind of visualised," she recalled. "Back in Sweden, where I'm from, if you're an actor then really what you are is on stage. And you're lucky to maybe have a TV show or film every couple of years, because that's how small the industry is in Sweden. "So I think that's what I always saw in front of me. And then, life happened, and throughout the years [theatre] has always been something I've been waiting for and thinking 'it will happen'." Vikander has certainly been busy in the meantime. The 36-year-old has starred in Tomb Raider, Ex Machina and Testament of Youth, and won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance opposite Eddie Redmayne in 2015's The Danish Girl. Getty Images Vikander won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance in 2015's The Danish Girl Vikander will play lead character Ellida, the sea-loving daughter of a lighthouse-keeper. Ellida is married to a Norwegian doctor, but when a sailor she used to be engaged to suddenly returns, she is forced to choose between her current and former lover. The play marks the introduction of the character Hilde Wangel, one of the doctor's daughters from a previous marriage. Hilde goes on to appear in one of Ibsen's later plays, The Master Builder, a new adaptation of which is coincidentally also currently in the West End, starring Ewan McGregor. An adaptation of another Ibsen play, Enemy of the People, opened in London last year starring Doctor Who actor Matt Smith. 'Perfect match' Director Stone has previously helmed films such as The Dig and The Daughter, while his extensive theatre credits include productions of Yerma, Phaedra, Medea and Angels in America. "He once again is going to take a classic and reinvent it and make it be something that is relatable to our modern audience today," Vikander said. "And when I was told he was doing Ibsen and The Lady from the Sea, I guess that going back to my Scandinavian and Swedish heritage, it kind of felt like a perfect match." Vikander said she felt the reason many of the classics are still being performed in the West End is they tackle many of the same subjects society still grapples with today. "I have discussions with my friends, I just passed 35, I'm getting close to my 40s soon and I have my kids, but I still feel extremely young. Really young. Sometimes I'm like, 'I'm 25 still!' "But then I also realise I'm entering this very new chapter which is really exciting, but I think if you are in a place where you feel like you haven't fulfilled certain dreams or tried things, you're still wondering where these choices or action would have led you, then I think it's extremely human thing. "Women throughout history have been held back, maybe because they didn't have the same opportunities, or they financially couldn't do some things, or ended up in situations where it was harder to break away from the role of being a mother. "So therefore when I read it, I feel like I totally understand the turmoil this woman goes through, and I don't think humans have changed that much from a core, emotional point of view. And I think that's why we're interested in these stories." She aded: "It's incredible that the big universal questions are something we're still battling in the same way." Getty Images Director Simon Stone (pictured in 2017) won an Olivier Award for best revival, for his production of Yerma
