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Did I really stink? How actors cope with a critical mauling
18 Aug 2014:Meera Syal ignores them, John Hurt gets drunk and writes to them, Peter Egan thinks he's fair game ... Five actors tell us how they respond to the critics
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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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10 Sep 2014:
Lyn Gardner: Great translations make foreign productions accessible, but poor ones are a distraction. Should surtitles sometimes be shown the stage door?
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9 Sep 2014:
Lyn Gardner: Matrimony has been explored by playwrights including Shakespeare, Chekhov, Williams and O'Casey. Which stage unions have fascinated you?
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8 Sep 2014:
Openings this week range from a classic about life in the trenches during the first world war to an exploration of sheep-farming on a Snowdonia hill farm
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5 Sep 2014:
A new revival of that old favourite, Kes, underlines the dilemma facing regional theatres: whether to put on plays that will shift tickets – or maybe change lives
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2 Sep 2014:
As belts are tightened in the UK, international partnerships such as Simon Stephens's remarkable Three Kingdom will make British theatre far richer, writes Lyn Gardner
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1 Sep 2014:
Headlong's 1984 hits Glasgow, the astonishing Grounded goes out on tour from Birmingham Rep, and the Unlimited Festival pushes boundaries at the South Bank, writes Lyn Gardner
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25 Aug 2014:
The fringe is over for another year, so here are 2014's unofficial bouquets and brickbats
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8 Sep 2014:
Brian Logan: No other nation is as funny as we are, thanks to the punk revolution, the Edinburgh fringe – and the legacy of Thatcherism
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2 Sep 2014: Media Monkey: The ex-Newsnight has targeted ‘self-regarding’ actors and spoken about his one-man show in Edinburgh.
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29 Aug 2014: US composer Harry Partch invented an entirely new musical language and created an orchestra of new instruments to play it on. Heiner Goebbels tells Kate Molleson about his production of Partch’s most radical work, coming to Edinburgh this week.
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28 Aug 2014:
Brett Bailey's controversial Exhibit B forces the audience to engage with stories of exploitation, say supporters
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28 Aug 2014:
Spanish guitar virtuoso Peña leads a band of musicians and dancers in a dazzling show honouring the murdered writer, writes Alice Bain
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28 Aug 2014: The great Dutch ensemble was as responsive as always, but needed more jolt and frenzy in its Ravel and Shostakovich, writes Kate Molleson
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27 Aug 2014:
Raskopoulos has acting flair, an eye for vivid character and deftness in handling and discomfiting his audience, writes Brian Logan
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Video (7min 05sec), 26 Aug 2014:
In this exclusive video for the Guardian the Kronos Quartet's leader David Harrington introduces their latest work which blends an emotive score by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov with archive footage from the first world war reclaimed by film-maker Bill Morrison.
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