"Ibsen Revisited" was first produced at the Liberal Club, in 1914, with
the following cast:
The Maid .......... Jo Gotsch
The Stranger...... Floyd Dell
_A middle-class interior. The parlour-maid is dusting the furniture_.
THE MAID. Oh, how dull it is here! Nobody to talk to, nobody to flirt
with. . . . Flirt! The men that come to this house don't even know the
meaning of the word. I never worked in such a place. Life is just one
long funeral. I wish something would happen. (_A knock at the door_.)
Ah! if it were only in the old days, one might hope that that was a
reporter. But nothing like that now!
_She opens the door. A stranger enters_.
THE STRANGER. Is--ah--Miss Gabler in?
THE MAID. You mean--Mrs. Lovberg?
THE STRANGER. Yes--but . . . I'm not mistaken, am I? Mrs. Lovberg is--
or was--Hedda Gabler. Isn't that true?
THE MAID. Oh, yes, it's Hedda. But she prefers to be called by her
husband's name. Did you wish to see her? She is busy just now.
THE STRANGER. Busy?
THE MAID. Yes--she is conducting her class in Modern Adolescence.
THE STRANGER. How like Hedda! Always experimenting with something or
other! What is she teaching them?