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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070320
Author:Ben Macnair Administration assistant Lichfield

Henrik Ibsen's play about jealousy, rivalry, high expectations and dashed hopes was brought to vivid life in Central Line Touring's latest production at the Lichfield Garrick. Following previous high- quality theatre performances of The Beaux' Strategem by George Farquhar and Moliere's Tartuffe at the theatre, this play was a fine third piece for the company.

The unsympathetic, spoilt and self-absorbed anti-heroine, Hedda Gabler, was played in a tour de force performance by Amanda Leigh- Owen. Her cuckolded, scholarly husband, Jrgen Tesman, believes that he has won a prize in her, but the ...

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