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From: Bath Chronicle, The
Date: 20080306
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In more than 100 years Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has attracted some singularly odd reviews.

London Theatre critic Max Beerbohm was so impressed by the performance given by the prompter when Italian actress Eleonora Duse played the part that he said: "While Signora Duse walked through her part, the prompter threw herself into it with a will." Perhaps even odder was when Jenny Agutter of Railway Children fame played in Charles Marowitz's free adaptation at the Round House in 1980. Agutter's Hedda was so sexually potent that one critic renamed her Hedda Gobbler.

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