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Should playwrights be kinder to audiences? by Lyn Gardner

Shows such as King Lear and the choreographer Olivier Dubois's Tragédie can be punishing to watch, but that's what makes them interestingAlan Bennett recently said that one of the things that he had learned over the years was to be kinder to the audience and that he no longer inflicted long monologues on them as he had done in his early work. Audiences are always the final arbiter. They either pay to come or they d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on May 21, 2014

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