#george tesman

[atreeinthemoonlight]

Benedict Cumberbatch as George and Eve Best as Hedda Tesman in 'Hedda Gabler' (2005)

[windypuddle]

HELLO EVERYONE

so me and my friends are doing a presentation on Hedda Gabler for theatre class, right? and we look up productions of it, right?

well. we weren't getting many results for the National Theatre (UK) production, just some snippets about it. I looked it up again today and realized that this was because it hadn't opened yet. Edit: It is paywalled and you have to buy a subscription to the National Theatre At Home in order to watch it. My information that it was opening "this December" was out of date.

NOW. IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN:

KYLE SOLLER? AS GEORGE TESMAN.

looking it up like oh hello alright i think thats the actress who played Antigone in the NT production as well and then oh hello there- Kyle Soller. What.

Anyway, Hedda Gabler is an excellent play and this guy is, I'm pretty sure, an amazing actor, so if you can find the time (and money for a subscription to NTAT) to watch this production, I hope you enjoy it. (Although, as a warning, the play does discuss suicide.)

[when-we-drive-away-in-secret]

Oh this thought isn't fully formed yet but... Jerome Squalor = George Tesman. Esmé = Hedda Gabler

[essayly]

1250 homework

 Students will write an essay comparing the plays Othello and Hedda Gabler. The focus of the essay should utilize one of the five topics below: 1. Contrast the different degrees of deception and control committed by Iago and Hedda 2. Analyze the different levels of gullibility and manipulation of Roderigo and George Tesman 3. Contrast the varying weaknesses and character flaws of Cassio and…

[sapph1ra]

Working on Mildred’s ex husband I’m going to make him a George tesman esque guy and also a treasury department employee cus I think that would be really funny

[acting202]

Acting: Unit 9

Hedda Gabler - Staging

Today, we started setting up and transforming our classrooms into our production space. We used inspiration from a theatre company called Punchdrunk who transform different sets into an immersive setting. We changed our two performing arts classrooms into our Hedda Gabler scene set up. The first room where our audience will walk into will be the split into George Tesman’s writing room and Hedda’s living room. We decided to use a large table with 2 spinning chairs around it for Tesman and Thea for the scene where Tesman is helping Thea Elvsted restore and fix the manuscript in his study. On the other side of the room, we had set up 3 chairs in a triangle to show the manipulative triangle between Hedda, Thea and Eilert. We decided to decorate the chairs with purple cloth and a white scarf as during the physical theatre piece between Hedda and Thea that we will perform, Hedda will cover Eilert’s eyes to force him to drink and she also ties Thea’s hands together to force her to watch Eilert drink again. 

We covered all electrical devices such as computers and speakers with white sheets to show that Hedda and Tesman have just moved into a new home which is stated at the beginning of the script. We covered the smart board with a black sheet to give it a curtain look and we closed all curtains in the classroom to block any natural light from coming through the windows. We wrote ‘Hedda Gabler’ in bold writing on the white board. We used a patterned cloth to cover the music instruments that usually sit in the corner in the first room and set a small lamp on top of it. I had set up a second lamp on the opposite side of the room by the computer to give slightly more light in the room so it wasn’t in complete darkness. We decided as a group to have interaction with the audience, so I took two sheets of burnt parchment and ripped up one sheet while drawing the outline of the pieces on the second sheet and adding numbers onto each individual piece. 

In the second room, we hung burnt pieces of parchment that I had made and we used safety pins to hold each one in the ceiling. We covered the bookshelf, the windows, walls, posters, and large sections of the corner of the room by the door using black paper to have minimum things showing that we could not remove like the books off the bookshelf and the posters on the wall or the difficult sections that we could not remove, so we decided to cover them with large sheets of paper. We had the doors open due to still going through Covid and we attached a white sheet to the pole out side the room and had it draped over the open door so it was a clear indication of where the audience will be lead out from. We had a small red colored lamp by the back door where the lights were blocked. We did not need any other light source as the main door was open which was letting in majority of the light. 

We made the decision to have a mannequin with a brides veil to indicate that Hedda and Tesman are newly wed. We used a blue cloth to cover the mannequin’s body to add more of a creepy effect. We hung up a white sheet covered in bloody writing and bloody hand prints and stains. The messages on the sheet reads ‘Do It Beautifully’ indicating to Hedda telling Eilert to kill himself in a ‘beautiful’ way. We also had books taped open to give a sinister feel that books have been left open and it also indicated to the manuscript that was torn and burnt. On the table in the center of the room, we set out battery powered candles to avoid any accidents with real candles. We also set out various flowers to show the flowers that might have been sent to the house to congratulate the new married couple. We had put out shreds of parchment with quotes from the play from different characters that will be given to the audience as it is an interactive way to connect the audience and make them feel apart of our show. This will be the second way the audience will have interaction with the actors. 

[karin-woywod]

944 x 1000 pixels - 2005 03 15 - Hedda Gabler - Almeida Theatre by Marilyn Kingwill

HEDDA GABLER - Ibsen - 03 / 05 Almedia Theatre - London director : Richard Eyre EVE BEST - Hedda BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH - George Tesman Photographer: Marilyn Kingwill

Link    <---  I will delete this file in a short while

[its-doctor-linus]

[anxiouspotatorants]

I know it’s more than right to reference Anna Karenina for Rory considering how much she loves that book, but when we’re on the topic of s***ide period pieces, there are some interesting parallels with Hedda Gabler.

Really, hear me out here. Rory and Hedda are not alike at all, I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Hedda was raised a daddy’s girl and a spoiled bully who is partly so resentful because the only outlet for her ambitions as a 19th century woman is the spousal sphere. Rory and Hedda are not the same. But their trio of lovers on the other hand…

So Hedda has three guys in the play who work as lovers in one way or another. Her husband George Tesman is the conventional man she chose to accept the proposal of. He’s not filthy rich, but he’s stable and has his sights on a great professor position. She didn’t marry him because she loved him but because she thought he was her safest options. Now who does that remind us of? Maybe a Jolly Green Giant that Rory was mildly possesive of but struggled to fall in love with and who played second fiddle to the other guys?

Second parallel guy is Judge Brack. This guy is rich, confident, extremely judgemental and unashamedly flirtatious and negging. I will say that I think of Brack as a dark version of Logan, but I still consider Logan to be his parallel. These guys appeal to the women’s desire for luxury and something less conventional than they’re accustomed to (though Brack turns things really dark and tries to force Hedda into things I’m doubt Logan would morally be capable of).

But the pièce de résistance, the main reason I’m even posting this, is Eilert Lovborg. Many years ago he had a tumultous and passionate relationship with Hedda that ended badly. He’s a recovering alcoholic who was thought to have ruined his life as an academic. But having gotten clean he’s a writing starlet who would most likely get the professor job Tesman is applying to (but he doesn’t because plot).

A redeemed writer. Defined as Hedda’s ‘one that got away’. Who does that sound like.

[mariocki]

Hedda Gabler (Yorkshire Television, 1981)

"Hedda... Aunty Rina's dying. She says if I want to see her again I'll have to really hurry. Yes, yes I will, I'll - I'll run over there right away."

"Will you run, George?"

"Hedda, you couldn't bring yourself to come with me, could you?"

"No Tesman, please don't ask me to do that. I don't want to be watching illness and death. I can't bear things that are ugly."

[marykk1990]

George Tesman in Hedda Gabler.

[thegood-orel]

Symbols in ‘Hedda Gabler’ Play by Henrik Ibsen

Introduction

Since lately i’ve got a lot of assignment that require my writing skill, and i realize i’ve written many essay, whether they are short or long ones, i think i wanted to share it with someone other than, you know, my teacher. So here we go.

In case you are not familiar with Hedda Gabler, you can read it online *cough* for free *cough* here. I’ve deleted my original introduction because i feel like it’s too formal to share it in here. If you have any question, send me an ask.

The Pistol

         The Pistol played huge part of the whole story. The Pistol that had been given by Hedda’s father to her was a symbol of inheritence of her personality. Hedda was raised by military background of her father, General Gabler, and it resembled in her personality throughout the story.

“… General Gabler's daughter! Think of the sort of life she was accustomed to in her father's time..” –Act I

In the Act I, Miss Tesman/Aunt Juliana said to Berta that Hedda was hard to please because she had lived her best life when she was still with her family. She was ‘accustomed’ in all the high class life. Still in Act I, Hedda made fun of Aunt Juliana’s bonnet by mistakingly accused it as her servant’s, all while previously George complimented it. Her standard towards people was high, she couldn’t even appreciate her own servant or her aunt-in-law.

Her father was no ordinary man –he was a General, it showed high reputation and standard of people. As in Hedda’s personality, it was –still is, known that all military has a huge pride of themselves, so was Hedda. She was bothered by the fact that she was married with someone who had lower class rank than her, it hurt her pride and dignity. 

“Do you recognise it? It was aimed at you once.” –Act III

Her relationship with Lovborg was also connected with the pistol. Mrs. Elvsted once said Lovborg may or may be not still haunted by his previous woman. He vaguely mentioned it to Mrs. Elvsted that woman ‘threatened to shoot him with a pistol’ when they parted. Deep inside, when Mrs. Elvsted retelling this story to Hedda, Hedda knew excatly who was the woman –herself. Close to the end, Lovborg ended his own life with the same pistol which once he was being threatened of. And still with the same pistol, Hedda ended her own life. This indicate Hedda ‘commanded’ Lovborg to kill himself, while Hedda killed herself, showing her power of others and the boss of herself.

Let’s make it short, The Pistol as symbolism in this story was telling us: a) The pistol was an inheritance of her father/her family’s pride, possession and characterization of Hedda, b) The pistol showing power of Hedda Gabler/Tesman, in which she was the boss of herself, she took the control of her own life when other’s easily being manipulated by her.

The Manuscript

“Now I am burning your child, Thea!—Burning it, curly-locks! [Throwing one or two more quires into the stove.] Your child and Eilert Lovborg's.” –Act III

         In Act III, Hedda burned down Lovborg’s fabulous manuscript while rambling about how she was burning down Mrs. Elvsted and Lovborg’s child. At first, George only asked her to keep it in watch while he was away to visit Aunt Rina. Sometime later, after Lovborg visited Hedda, saying that he lost his manuscript, he couldn’t face this life anymore. In here, Hedda didn’t tell him that she had the manuscript with him eventhough she knew he wanted to kill himself after lost it. Instead she gave him a pistol and asked him to ‘do it beautifully’.

         After he left, she burned down his manuscript. It was a symbol of how she destroyed the manuscript along with its ‘parents’ life, Mrs. Elvsted and Lovborg. She was powerful like that.

Aurellya Rahmada

Surabaya, February 22 2019

[ikosis]

DREAM blunt rotation:

•Joey Wheeler from Yugioh

•Pit from kid Icarus

•The guy in sponchbob who says “my leg!”

•One of those girls with dyed hair who like deftones.

•George Tesman from Henrik Ibsen’s psychological drama Hedda Gabler

[janeashersource]

Janet Suzman (as Hedda Gabler), Sir Ian McKellen (as George Tesman), Tom Bell (as Eilert Lovborg), Jane Asher (as Thea Elvsted) and Brendan Barry (as Judge Brack) in BBC Play of the Month’s Hedda Gabler, aired on 20 October 1972.

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was present at the world premiere, which took place on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. It is recognized as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. The title character, Hedda, is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre.

As for Jane’s role, Thea Elvsted is a younger schoolmate of Hedda and a former acquaintance of George. Nervous and shy, Thea is in an unhappy marriage.

* My screenshoots. The watermarks are necessary because of screen copying for web use without permission or credits.*

[drama-noemi2021]

In the next few weeks we will dedicate ourselves to perfecting the decoration of our stage to achieve a good decoration. Decorations of our performance:

Hedda Gabler Makeup Corner

Table with manuscript and baby where Thea Elvsted and George Tesman

Mg10 - we cover all the walls and hang manuscripts from the ceiling. We set up a table in the middle of the room with chairs around it for the audience to sit in the last scene.

Mg9 - Cover computers, chairs, and walls.

Mystery music

Broken manuscript that I give to the audience in the last scene, with written phrases from the play on one side and Hedda Gabler's phrase “I want to control you” on the other.

Three chairs forming a triangle in Mg9 for the Physical Theater dance.

Decorated India monologue room.

[spokenrealms]

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler, a play in four acts by Henrik Ibsen, was published in 1890. The first production in English was in April 1891 in London. The title role of Hedda is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre.

Hedda and George Tesman have just returned from their six-month honeymoon tour of the Tyrol. George, a studious and somewhat dull academic has spent most of the time…