Scenes from an Execution

Saturday 6th October 2012

Fiona Shaw in Scenes from an Execution. Photo: Mark Douet
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Text of the day: “The critic is afraid of the artist and envies her power. She is ashamed of what she secretly believes to be an inferior gift, that of exposition. So instead of serving the artist, she humiliates her.” (Rivera in Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution)

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