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The Ibsen classic, in a new version by Christopher Hampton, was seen at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 starring Juliet Stevenson as Hedda ‘… Hampton’s was, above all, language made to be spoken not quoted. As such it is the key to the production’s success in establishing the’sense of the, at times, appallingly comic spectacle ofa claustrophobic and fragile world coming apart at the’seams.’ What’s On