A bold, queer 'Hedda,' from Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson, debuts at TIFF

TORONTO (AP) — Nia DaCosta was thunderstruck when she first read Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” in drama school. But when she saw a production of it, something was missing. “I was like, ‘Oh, that’s not as crazy as I thought it would feel,’” DaCosta says.