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A bold new version of Ibsens tragic masterpiece by an award-winning modern writer of Chimerica. In Lucy Kirkwoods version of Hedda Gabler; Ibsens nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to present-day London; to startling effect. Hedda; still mourning for the father she adored; returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesnt love; to a flat and a pregnancy she doesnt want. Trapped by her past and terrified of her future; bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it; she finds herself caught between three men. And in the end; something has to give. Lucy Kirkwoods Hedda premiered at the Gate Theatre; London; in August 2008. a Hedda for our times Guardian Ibsens 19th-century masterpiece relocated thrillingly to London 2008... Kirkwood makes us believe absolutely in this modern-day world of mountainous mortgages and bitchy academia Evening Standard