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NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew Dunster’s modern-dress reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is so peculiar. Lily Allen is convincingly brittle as the bored newlywed who has just returned from honeymoon with her plodding academic husband, George (Ciarán Owens). His loyal aunt, Julia, is exquisitely played by Imogen…

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler will hit the West End if Ruth Wilson can too

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Efforts to transfer the National Theatre’s sizzling new deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler — starring Ruth Wilson, in the performance of her career — into the West End are proving as complicated as the woman Wilson plays.

Director Ivo van Hove’s scorching production of Ibsen’s 125-year-old tragedy (adapted rivetingly by Patrick Marber) is playing to packed houses at the…