Experiment 14
Assignment: Alternate Ending to Hedda Gabler Setting: (instead of killing herself after closing the shades…) Scene: Hedda closes the shades and rushes to her room to pack her bags. She can hear the group outside talking about her. JUDGE: Must Hedda always be this dramatic? Why is she so upset about this man anyways? (Hedda grows annoyed and searches for her passport, it still has her maiden name on it and she smiles reminiscing in her independence. She listens for the group as they begin into the house. Hedda rushes down the stairs and slips out the front door before anyone catches her.) Hedda walks swiftly to the boss stop with her suitcase in hand. Meanwhile, back at the house, the group has begun to wonder where Hedda has gone. TESMAN: Hedda, dear? Where are you? The Judge is ready to leave. Please come say your Goodbye’s we do not wish to be rude to the man after all he is doing for us. (They don’t hear Hedda) JUDGE: Perhaps you should go up and get ...