Heather Gardner " review by Michael Billington

The Old Rep, BirminghamRobin French, Birmingham Rep's writer-in-residence, isn't the first to update Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: in Thomas Ostermeier's Berlin Schaubühne version, seen at the Barbican in 2008, a very modern Hedda took a hammer to Eilert Lovborg's laptop. But French's rewrite, while retaining Ibsen's plot, transposes the action to Edgbaston in 1962 and changes the characters' names. The result, while full o…

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