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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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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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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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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