Hedda Gabler of the Sol Invictus album "In The Rain". The Norwegian hard-rock band Black Debbath recorded the song "Motörhedda Gabler" on their Ibsen-inspired album "Naar Vi Døde Rocker" ("When We Dead Rock"). As the title suggests, the song is also influenced by British heavy metal band Motörhead. The original play "Heddatron" by Elizabeth Meriwether (b. 1981) melds "Hedda Gabler" with a modern family's search for love despite the invasion of technology into everyday life. In the 2013 novel "Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy" by Helen Fielding, Bridget tries and fails to write a modernised version of "Hedda Gabler", which she
Hedda Gabler father. She then burns the manuscript and tells George she has destroyed it to secure their future. When the news comes that Eilert has indeed killed himself, George and Thea are determined to try to reconstruct his book from Eilert's notes, which Thea has kept. Hedda is shocked to discover from Judge Brack that Eilert's death, in a brothel, was messy and probably accidental; this "ridiculous and vile" death contrasts with the "beautiful and free" one that Hedda had imagined for him. Worse, Brack knows the origins of the pistol. He tells Hedda that if he reveals what he knows,