Who better to score a play on Broadway about a neurotic, manipulative, suicidal housewife's struggle with her with torporous domestic existence, than PJ Harvey? The mistress of mood has scored a production of Henrik Ibsen's of Hedda Gabler scheduled to open this Sunday at the American Airlines Theater in New York with Mary Louise Parker (Weeds, Angels in America, The West Wing) in the title role.
"The character of Hedda is fascinating and horrifying at the same time," Harvey said to the New York Daily News. "As an artist I've always been drawn to what human being are capable of, in how far you can push things. And Hedda pushes things to the limit."
Aside from her whole John Williams bit, Harvey's apparently working on the release of a regular old album, the follow up to 2007's White Chalk, due sometime this spring. Harvey expects to tour in May.
