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Deborah Warner's version, with Fiona Shaw as Hedda Gabler and Stephen Rea as Ejlert Løvborg, was televised in 1993.

Shaw's portrayal finds the hypersensitivity behind those cruelties of Hedda's which are often played without conscience.

Shaw plays the requisite arrogance with which Hedda wounds those around her, but the immediate recriminations which she visits upon herself are even more harrowing.