Tessa Thompson’s 'Hedda' streams on Prime Video

Tessa Thompson’s Golden Globe–nominated turn in Nia DaCosta’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is available to stream on Prime Video. Thompson is also preparing to make her Broadway debut in the play The Fear of 13. Reviewing the film, the outlet argued that, despite changes to the text, DaCosta’s version remains true to the spirit of the play.

Thompson is described as “absolutely mesmerizing” as a mercurial, coquettish and desperately unhappy housewife, and Nina Hoss is noted as a formidable scene partner in the role of Eileen Lovborg, a character who is male in the original play — a change that the piece said adds new shades to the sexual tension.

The Times also highlighted other theatre streaming options: a filmed King’s Cross production of David Bowie’s Lazarus, starring Michael C. Hall, Michael Esper and Sophia Anne Caruso, which the paper said received mixed reviews at its Off Broadway premiere but “is aging well” and may work better on TV; the Playing on Air podcast series, which began as a radio show in 2012 and features one-act plays (notable past work includes Timothée Chalamet and Zoe Kazan in a 2018 piece), with Maleek Rae’s Father’s Sin due to drop Jan.

23; Bat Out of Hell on BroadwayHD, described as extravagant and compulsively hummable; and the PBS series Happiness, following a New Zealand community troupe staging a musical called The Trojan Horse.

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