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Patricia Hodge leaves frantic theatre bosses scrambling for a West End replacement after legendary actress is forced off stage with a throat infection


The actress, 79, who stars as the word-mangling Mrs Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals at the Orange Tree Theatre, was struck down with laryngitis.

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