Catiline (play) later works. Catilina, full of doubts and torn between love and duty, is similar to protagonists in "John Gabriel Borkman" and "The Master Builder". Furia is also the prototype of some of the later female characters, such as Hedda Gabler. Ibsen was not the first playwright to dramatize the story of Catiline. Ben Jonson wrote a tragedy on the subject, called "Catiline, His Conspiracy", in 1611. Asked later what he had read when he wrote Catiline, Ibsen replied that he had read only the Danish Norse saga-inspired Romantic tragedian Adam Oehlenschläger and Ludvig Holberg, "the Scandinavian Molière". [BBC Radio 4's
Hedda Gabler an Academy Award as leading actress for her role in the British film adaptation "Hedda" (1975) directed by Trevor Nunn. A version was produced for Australian television in 1961. An American film version released in 2004 relocated the story to a community of young academics in Washington state. An adaptation (by Brian Friel) of the 2012 Old Vic production was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4 on 9 March 2013. In 2014, Matthew John also adapted Hedda Gabler starring Rita Ramnani, David R. Butler, and Samantha E. Hunt. An operatic adaptation of the play has been