Tag: theatre critics
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Why are critics so bad at reviewing theatre made by artists with learning disabilities?
Wednesday 12th February 2020
blogIn September 2019, neurodiverse performance company Spectra commissioned journal…
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The hunt for Sarah Kane
Wednesday 14th August 2019
blogOne from the archives: Sarah Kane was the enfant terrible of 1990s British playw…
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Harold Hobson on London theatre
Friday 26th August 2016
blogOne from the archives: “An Olivier, a Gielgud, or a Richardson is presumably not…
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A brief history of in-yer-face theatre
Friday 1st July 2016
writingOne from the archives: where did the label come from, and who first coined it?
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Mark Fisher on criticism
Wednesday 13th January 2016
blogQuote of the day: “Writing about theatre is an act of translation.”
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Nica Burns on theatre critics
Monday 5th August 2013
blogQuote of the week: “It seems to me an irony that in this centenary year of the C…
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George Hunka on criticism
Wednesday 6th March 2013
blogQuote of the day: “The mainstream critic or reviewer will use the low-cost resou…
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Mercury Fur, 3-4 Picton Place, London W1
Tuesday 23rd February 2010
reviewPhilip Ridley’s screamer, here given a site-specific revival, is brilliantly wri…
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About The Last Cigarette
Saturday 18th April 2009
blogTheatre critics have what you could call, ahem, a flexible job description.
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