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Should new plays in London be worth more than regional premieres? by Lyn Gardner

The theatre world's London bias particularly affects new writing, which seldom attracts much attention beyond the capitalOne of the best plays I saw last year was Lungs, an off-kilter love story by Duncan Macmillan. Did Macmillan's play appear in the best-of-year roundups? No, but that's hardly surprising because no other national critic reviewed it. Why? Almost certainly because it premiered in Sheffield rather than…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PM on February 1, 2012

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