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What revivals can teach playwrights about their craft and themselves

Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook in Jerusalem, Nicholle Cherrie and Nathan Queeley-Dennis in Black Love, Operation Mincemeat and Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon in Midsummer. Photos: Tristram Kenton/Camilla Greenwell/Alex Harvey-Brown/Euan Myles
Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook in Jerusalem, Nicholle Cherrie and Nathan Queeley-Dennis in Black Love, Operation Mincemeat and Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon in Midsummer. Photos: Tristram Kenton/Camilla Greenwell/Alex Harvey-Brown/Euan Myles
Playwrights tell Lyn Gardner about staging a revival in a changing cultural and political landscape, resisting the urge to tweak the text and recognising that very often the flaws are what make a play captivating

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