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The Tricycle's True West: a classic play gets a classic production
11 Sep 2014:Lyn Gardner: After 30 years and numerous versions, I have finally seen why the hype around Sam Shepard's 1980 play is justified. Which revivals have changed your mind about feted works?
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12 Sep 2014: Kenneth Lonergan’s breakout play revived with three young stars in a cruel to be kind portrayal of disillusioned adolescence
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12 Sep 2014: Becky Mode’s comedy about an out-of-work actor manning the phones in a New York restaurant delivers a virtuoso display of character switching – but not much more, writes Lyn Gardner
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12 Sep 2014: Tim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett’s intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today, writes Michael Billington
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12 Sep 2014: Brisbane’s La Boite and Sydney’s Belvoir St theatres tackle Henrik Ibsen’s seminal feminist play and arrive at the same conclusion
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11 Sep 2014: Paul Miller gets off to a fine start as the Orange Tree’s new director with this intense version of Lawrence’s hard-hitting working-class tragedy, writes Michael Billington
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11 Sep 2014: Michael Billington: This powerful production with Niamh Cusack is a stark portrait of a divided house and country
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11 Sep 2014: This searing staging of Sam Shepard’s play tackles the violence between two misfit brothers head-on, writes Lyn Gardner
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10 Sep 2014: A heartfelt take on the Barry Hines’s classic has its moments, but the impact of the story is diluted by a lack of pace and focus, writes Lyn Gardner
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10 Sep 2014: Stuffed with gags and overflowing with an easygoing, laid-back liberalism, this comedy about a vinyl-shop owner fighting developers has the feel of a stonking hit, writes Michael Billington
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10 Sep 2014:
Hot on the heels of Monty Python at the O2, Palin's latest offering is mildly amusing but his bricolage offers no surprises