'Hedda' review: Tessa Thompson sears in Prime's adaptation of Ibsen play
In Nia DaCosta's elegantly searing drama "Hedda," Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler," this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has entered into a marriage with a man she doesn't love, in order to give her the social status she wants. In the opening scenes, she strides through her magnificent English country home, red dress ...