Writings
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The Literary Gaze
Monday 1st March 2021
Sample a couple of paragraphs from the introduction to my latest book on postwar…
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How To Write a Pandemic Play
Friday 1st January 2021
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020
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The Time Traveller’s Guide to British Theatre: An Interactive Timeline
Tuesday 17th November 2020
Calling all drama teachers and students: let’s bring theatre history alive!
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All We Need Is Music, Sweet Music (Sweet Music)
Thursday 1st October 2020
From the archives: the Critic takes an angry look at London’s West End theatre
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Explore theatre through time travel
Tuesday 8th September 2020
Calling all drama teachers and students: let’s bring theatre history alive!
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Some things change
Saturday 1st August 2020
Bad stuff and change in a time of pandemic: a derivative lockdown poem
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Death of the theatre critic?
Wednesday 1st July 2020
One from the archives: theatre criticism in an age of marketing
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Spring Cleaning, Arlingford Road, London
Monday 1st June 2020
In the absence of live theatre during lockdown the Critic is obliged to review h…
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Brief Notes Towards a Definition of Leftfield Theatre
Wednesday 1st April 2020
Can the stranglehold of naturalism and social realism in British theatre ever be…
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