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Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois. Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an academic post. After a drunken orgy, the manuscript of Lovborg's treatise falls into her hands and she destroys it. Discovery traps her, her romantic ide.

1. Act 1: Miss Tesman: Upon My Word, I Don't Believe They Are 2. Act 1: Tesman: Aunt Julia, Dear Aunt Julia, Come All This Way-So 3. Act 1: Miss Tesman: And to Think That There You Are a Married Man 4. Tesman: Well Fortunately, Judge Brack Has Secured the Most 5. Act 1: Miss Tesman: Good Morning, My Dear Hedda! 6. Act 1: Tesman: What Are You Looking at, Hedda? 7. Act 1: Hedda: How Do You Do, My Dear Mrs Elvsted? 8. Act 1: Hedda: There! We Have Killed Two Birds with One Stone 9. Act 1: Hedda: What Sort of Man Is Your Husband, Thea? 10. Act 1: Tesman: There Now-The Epistle Is Finished 11. Act 2: Hedda: So Here You Are Again, Judge! 12. Act 2: Tesman: Ouf-What a Load for a Warm Day-All These Books 13. Act 2: Brack: What Bonnet Were You Talking About? 14. Act 2: Tesman: Hedda, Has No Message Come from Eilert Lovborg? 15. Act 2: Tesman: Well, My Dear Eilert-So We Meet Again 16. Act 2: Lovborg: Hedda Gabler! 17. Act 2: Berta: Mrs Elvsted, Madam 18. Act 2: Mrs Elvsted: Hedda - Hedda - What Will Come of All This? 19. Act 3: Mrs Elvsted: Not Yet! Oh God - Oh God - Not Yet! 20. Act 3: Act 3: Tessman: Hedda? 21. Act 3: Berta: Judge Brack Is at the Door, and Wishes to Know If He May 22. Act 3: Hedda: But Tell Me Now, Judge 23. Act 3: Lovborg: And I Tell You I Must and Will Come in! 24. Act 3: Mrs Elvsted: Ah, Lovborg! at Last! 25. Act 3: Hedda: So You Are Not Going to See Her Home, Mr Lovborg? 26. Act 3: Hedda: What Path Do You Mean to Take Then? 27. Act 4: Miss Tesman: Yes, Hedda, Here I Am, in Mourning and Forlorn 28. Act 4: Hedda: Ah, You Have Come at Last! 29. Act 4: Tesman: Burnt! Burnt! Eilert's Manuscript! 30. Act 4: Mrs Elvsted: Oh, Dear Hedda, Forgive My Coming Again 31. Act 4: Brack: Tesman! 32. Act 4: Hedda: Oh, What a Sense of Freedom It Gives One, This Avt 33. Act 4: Yesman: Hedda, Dear, It Is Almost Impossible to See Under 34. Act 4: Brack: Well, Hedda - Then Comes the Scandal! 35. Act 4: Hedda: Well? Are You Getting on, George?