This isn’t the Hedda Gabler you studied in school.

Written and directed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels), Hedda is a reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, with Tessa Thompson in the title role, and a number of changes to the original story.

Prime Video released a trailer Thursday that revealed that the film is now set in the Roaring ’20s, and the married Hedda’s former lover is now a woman. (The gender-swapped character is called Eileen instead of Eilort, giving Thompson’s character the opportunity to utter the line, “Come on, Eileen.”

Hedda Gabler’s life is one of excess and confinement at the same time, much like in the 1891 play. Hedda is free to party, but still under the control of her husband George, played by Tom Bateman. before the bacchanalia seen in the trailer, her husband orders her not to cause any trouble on “the most important night of the year.”

But trouble, in the form of Hedda’s former lover Eileen (Nina Hoss), is a surprise guest at the party. According to the film’s synopsis, “Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.”

Tessa Thompson in Hedda. Image courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios.

Thompson and DaCosta have worked together before on The Marvels, and both are producing Hedda. Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock and Finbar Lynch also star.

Ibsen’s play has been performed and made for film and television numerous times since it was first staged in Munich in 1891, and the tragic role of Hedda Gabler is considered one of the greatest dramatic roles for women.