• My Account
  • Quick Order
  • Cart
  • Checkout
 
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Clients

 
  • Home
  • The Plays
    • The Plays
    • Not Yet Published
    • Newly Published
    • Bestsellers
    • Classics
    • Collections
    • Bundles
    • Catalog
  • Performance Rights
    • Restrictions
    • Payments
    • Performance Rights
    • Upcoming Productions
  • Authors
  • FAQs
    • FAQs
    • Shipping Info
    • Refund Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submissions
    • Wholesale Customers
    • Desk Copies
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
Menu
  • Home
  • The Plays
    • The Plays
    • Not Yet Published
    • Newly Published
    • Bestsellers
    • Classics
    • Collections
    • Bundles
    • Catalog
  • Performance Rights
    • Restrictions
    • Payments
    • Performance Rights
    • Upcoming Productions
  • Authors
  • FAQs
    • FAQs
    • Shipping Info
    • Refund Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submissions
    • Wholesale Customers
    • Desk Copies
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
 

  • Home
  • The Plays
    • The Plays
    • Not Yet Published
    • Newly Published
    • Bestsellers
    • Classics
    • Collections
    • Bundles
    • Catalog
  • Performance Rights
    • Restrictions
    • Payments
    • Performance Rights
    • Upcoming Productions
  • Authors
  • FAQs
    • FAQs
    • Shipping Info
    • Refund Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submissions
    • Wholesale Customers
    • Desk Copies
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
 
  • Home
  • >
  • The Plays
  • >
  • Resolving Hedda
    Cover art by Studio Fuse, Inc.

    Resolving Hedda

    Jon Klein
    Trade Edition$15.95
    ePlay$15.00 + $10.00 per additional user
    Performance Rights

    Play Description

    Ibsen's characters from HEDDA GABLER, who know the play insanely well after centuries of performances, try desperately to keep the play afloat. At the same time Hedda, just as desperately, tries to sabotage the plot in order to avoid her demise. The misadventures that ensue continue to raise the stakes of hilarity to a fevered pitch. And if Hedda succeeds in her quest to live, will this classic theatrical work ever be performed again?

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 140 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
    Categories: The Plays Tags: 19th Century
    • Reviews
    • About the Author(s)
    • About the Book
    • Special Notes
    • Production Video and Stills
    • Productions

    Press Quotes

    “Henrik Ibsen’s violent tragic heroine Hedda Gabler has always had impulse control disorder, and now in Jon Klein’s modern knockoff, RESOLVING HEDDA, the newly snarky, anachronistically hip Hedda self-diagnoses as she tries—for once—to actually live through the end of the 1891 play … Klein has splendid tricks up his sleeve.” —Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

    “Critics’ Choice! Hedda is winning audience after audience to her side in Jon Klein’s boisterous new comedy, RESOLVING HEDDA, at the Victory Theatre … Klein, the author of such previous Victory hits as T BONE N WEASEL and WISHING WELL, delivers laughs at a steady pace.” —LA Times

    “Klein maneuvers his story with great skill. Hedda, the only character able to step out of the play and into the 21st century, contrasts comically with the others who continue to follow Ibsen’s commands … Klein’s quick-witted writing elicits a steady stream of laughter. You don’t have to know the original HEDDA GABLER to revel in this take-off, but if you have seen an original version, you may enjoy it even more.” —Amy Kotkin, DC Metro Arts

    “Fans of metatheatricality will adore Klein’s script, complete with anachronism, inside jokes, fourth wall breaks, and audience interaction. This new, feisty Hedda, who tries fiercely to break free from her pre-ordained path, is the self-confident feminist protagonist that will have contemporary audiences cheering … While watching RESOLVING HEDDA, you’ll likely find yourself more engaged in a period piece than you’ve ever been before—and glued to your seat until the final defiant moment.” —John Bavaso, DC Theatre Scene

    “It’s fun … the play is more approachable for general audiences than VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, which sends up Chekhov’s works … the writing becomes the true star of the show. The comedy is sharp, with contemporary references.” —Katie Buenneke, Stage Raw

    “RESOLVING HEDDA is no fusty graduate student’s deconstruction of the play. It’s really more like HEDDA GABLER meets NOISES OFF … Like all the best satirists, Klein obviously understands and appreciates the source material. The laughs are plentiful and varied. There is the ongoing joke of the renegade character, but also commentary on the theatre, modern culture, and female empowerment. Klein manages the difficult feat of keeping the laughs coming consistently through both acts.” —Michael Van Duzer, ShowMag.com

    “It’s all totally fascinating … The writing is terrific and the playwright Jon Klein … has taken what is familiar and classic and iconic and turned it completely on its head in the most creative, transfixing and delightful way … I cannot recommend RESOLVING HEDDA enough. If you have a soul, you should see this play.” —Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros, NoHo Arts District

    “Critics’ Choice! Along with the entire audience I laughed until I cried … and marveled at the stellar performances given throughout! Do not miss this one. It is a gem! Cleverly written with zany brilliance by Jon Klein … It is truly special and endlessly entertaining!” —Pat Taylor, The Tolucan Times

    “Critics’ Choice! One must witness this enjoyable production to fully experience Klein’s masterful homage.” —Dink O’Neal, Arts in LA

    “Henrik and Hedda, a hilarious pair … Its author is the brilliantly clever and witty Jon Klein and its director is the inimitable Maria Gobetti, who makes the most of Klein’s hilarious script.” —Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Daily Press

    “If you really want to have a laugh-out-loud evening in the theatre, RESOLVING HEDDA is the show for you. I am sure even Ibsen would be chuckling.” —Rob Stevens, Haines His Way

    Author(s)

    • Jon Klein

      Jon Klein is the author of over thirty produced plays, produced Off-Broadway and at many prestigious regional theatres, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage in D.C., Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, Center Stage in Baltimore, South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Alley Theatre in Houston, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Seattle Children's Theatre, and many others. He is probably best known for his play T BONE N WEASEL, which has received over a hundred productions at regional theatres throughout the US, and which he adapted for a TNT Network film, starring Gregory Hines and Christopher Lloyd. T BONE N WEASEL received several awards after its premiere at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, including an HBO Playwrights USA Award. Jon is also the author of the only authorized stage adaptation of the famous children's book BUNNICULA by James and Deborah Howe, which has received over a hundred productions in the US and Canada, including a national tour. The critically acclaimed (and Helen Hayes nominated) YOUNG ROBIN HOOD recently received its world premiere at the Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, MD. DIMLY PERCEIVED THREATS TO THE SYSTEM (finalist for the American Theatre Critics' Association Award, at Arena Stage, South Coast Rep and many others) and BETTY THE YETI (another entry at the Humana Festival in Louisville) also continue to be frequently produced. Two recent plays, SUGGESTIBILITY and WISHING WELL, recently premiered at the Victory Theatre in Burbank. Other plays that have received major productions around the country include OCTOPUS (Contemporary American Theatre Festival, WV), PEORIA (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, DC), SOUTHERN CROSS (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), THE EINSTEIN PROJECT (co-authored with Paul D'Andrea, at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge), FOUR OUR FATHERS (A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle), THE RED AND THE BLACK (adaptation of the Stendhal novel, also at A Contemporary Theatre), and LOSING IT (winner of the Dramatists Guild/CBS New Play Award, Off-Broadway and at Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Chicago). Jon is married to Laura Annawyn Shamas, playwright, essayist and mythologist.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 11/9/2018
    Pages 104
    ISBN 9780881457957

    Special Notes

    If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    Resolving Hedda is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
    www.broadwayplaypub.com

    Production Video and Stills

    Video-Player-Icon-Resolving-Hedda

    RESOLVING HEDDA at the Victory Theatre Center in Los Angeles.


    Resolving Hedda cast and set

    The cast and set of the Victory Theatre Center production. Photo by Tim Sullens.

    Upcoming and Recent Productions

    Professional


    11/26/2021 – 6/23/2022
    State Small Theater Of Vilnius
    Vilnius, LT, Lithuania

    3/21/2019 – 4/14/2019
    Washington Stage Guild
    Washington, DC

    Nonprofessional


    10/7/2022 – 10/23/2022
    Valley Players
    Yountville, CA

    Related Plays

    $15.00
    The Perfect Marriage
    Ruth Wolff
    $15.00

    Play Description

    In this comedy about the nature of marriage, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley battle out their relationship at the gates of Heaven and Hell. Predeceasing Mary by several decades, Shelley can hardly wait for her to come to him in Limbo — but when she does, he is astonished to find that the woman who seemed for all her life to worship him now wants an independent existence. The Archangel/Devil must adjudicate between them and decide whether, in this afterlife, they will enter Heaven or Hell.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    Ghosts
    Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Anthony Clarvoe
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    Ibsen’s 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe’s taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    The Fraudster
    Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence Senelick
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.

    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    Antony
    Alexandre Dumas, translated by Laurence Senelick
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    “ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts.” —Alexandre Dumas (père)

    Production Info

    Cast: 14 total (6 female, 9 male, extras)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    Me, Me, Me
    Eugène Labiche and Èdouard Martin, translated by Laurence Senelick
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    A sardonic comedy about Dutrecy, a man of the most unbridled selfishness, who arranges his life to provide himself maximum comfort. With a similar friend De la Porcheraie he hopes to acquire land where a new street is to be built, cheating the owner before news gets out. He also intends to marry his teen-aged niece Therese in hopes she'll be his nurse in his old age. Meanwhile his nephew Armand has saved the banker's son Georges; bosom friends, each assumes the other loves Therese. Eventually, everything works out to the satisfaction of the young people and the discomfiture of Dutrecy.

    Production Info

    Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
    Blasted Event
    Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence Senelick

    Play Description

    Trapped in a misalliance, a husband is set upon by his wife, his in-laws, and the midwife.

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
    Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
    $11.95–$15.00
    The Father
    August Strindberg, adapted by Richard Nelson
    $11.95–$15.00

    Play Description

    Richard Nelson’s critically lauded adaptation of Strindberg’s classic, in which a power struggle between husband and wife leads to devastating consequences.

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    The Chinese Massacre (Annotated)
    Tom Jacobson
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    Based on historical incident, the play chronicles the first race riot in Los Angeles history: the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese men by a mob of 500 “people from all nations.” Tom Jacobson’s fiercely theatrical retelling brings to light the remarkable, culturally diverse 19th-century Wild West town that exploded into the metropolis we know today.

    Production Info

    Cast: 14 total (4 female, 10 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
    $11.95–$15.00
    An Italian Straw Hat
    Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, translated by Kenneth McLeish
    $11.95–$15.00

    Play Description

    The classic 1851 farce. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush. The owner of the hat is a former girlfriend who insists that Fadinard buys her a new hat instantly. He sets off to find a replacement hat, followed by his fiancée and all their guests. The play develops into a delirious chase as Fadinard hunts the hat and the guests hunt Fadinard and comic misunderstandings litter every scene.

    Production Info

    Cast: 18 total (6 female, 12 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
    $11.95
    Uncle Vanya
    Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
    $11.95

    Play Description

    An exhilarating new version of UNCLE VANYA that pairs one of the greatest plays ever written with the world's most celebrated translators of Russian literature. Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya's brother-in-law, a wealthy and celebrated professor. When this local legend returns with a beautiful new wife and announces his plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode, and the lives of the entire family come undone.

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
    $15.00–$15.95
    Southbridge
    Reginald Edmund
    $15.00–$15.95

    Play Description

    A white widow is assaulted; an angry mob is at the jail house door, screaming “Lynch him!” The only way to untangle the truth about the events is for the accused, Christopher C Davis, to look into the events that have led him to a tree stump in Athens, Ohio, in the year 1881.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, 1 female and 2 males are black)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
    The Awful Tooth
    Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence Senelick

    Play Description

    THE AWFUL TOOTH was the last new play of Feydeau to be produced in his lifetime, and its dentist’s chair offers a dose of sadistic hilarity. As translator Laurence Senelick notes, “Feydeau may be to dentists what Molière was to doctors.”

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes

    Contact Info

    BROADWAY PLAY PUBLISHING INC

    148 W 80th St, NY, NY 10024

    Working Days: Monday – Friday

    Working Hours: 8 am – 6 pm EST

    Phone: 212­-772-­8334

    Email: info@broadwayplaypub.com

    Website: www.broadwayplaypub.com

    Company Info

    • About Us
    • Shipping Info
    • Refund Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submissions
    • Contact Us

    Pages

    • Home
    • The Plays
    • Performance Rights
    • Authors
    • FAQs
    • Blog

    Newsletter Sign Up

    • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
    © Broadway Play Publishing Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

    ‹ › ×