Hedda - TNT

Whether or not you're familiar with Ibsen's play, Lucy Kirkwood's contemporary adaptation of his 19th century domestic drama is well worth seeing in its own right, and director Carrie Cracknell ensures that the updating convinces.

It brings the classic bang up to date whilst still remaining true to the essence of the original – but instead of the icy fjords of Norway, we get a Notting Hill flat with unfulfilled potential. Here Hedda, just back from an extended honeymoon, is bored, discontented and itching to cause trouble when Adrian Bower's dissolute Eli reappears, apparently reformed and with his latest book kept close on the memory stick hanging round his neck.

Cara Horgan's elegantly languid, insomniac Hedda, trapped in a relationship that was bound to disappoint, has a malicious gleam in her eye as she plays dangerous games with the lives of others, and Tom Mison impresses as her decent but uninspiring husband – a young academic researching robotic ants who made the unworldly mistake of thinking that marriage to a beautiful woman would automatically bring him happiness.

Gate, Pembridge Road W11 (020-7229 0706) Until October 4. £16 (£11 concessions)