Tag: theatre critics
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Bloody Difficult Women, Riverside Studios
Tuesday 12th April 2022
reviewBrexit documentary is a welcome reminder of how those in power need to be held t…
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Bernardine Evaristo on a playwright’s daughter
Wednesday 14th July 2021
blogQuote of the day: “Yazz wishes the play had already opened to five-star universa…
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The critic and the bullies
Monday 15th March 2021
blogThe pandemic has exaggerated the weaknesses of British theatre, and it has remin…
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Death of the theatre critic?
Wednesday 1st July 2020
writingOne from the archives: theatre criticism in an age of marketing
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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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