Writings
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Bollocks to Brexit!
Monday 1st April 2019
The artistic director of Forced Entertainment theatre company makes a heartfelt …
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Dark Times: British theatre after Brexit
Tuesday 1st January 2019
How is British theatre coping with the most critical time in the nation’s recent…
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How Brexit Ruins My Life
Monday 1st October 2018
The Critic releases a howl of anguish as he goes against the will of the people
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Who is the greatest living British playwright?
Monday 3rd September 2018
One from the archives: a celebration of Caryl Churchill republished on her 80th …
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Theatre Drove Me to Drugs
Sunday 1st April 2018
Blitzed! Get high on this completely addled history of a decade of British new w…
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Time to Retire? (New Writing 2015-16)
Thursday 1st September 2016
Against the grain: the Critic meanders through his rancid recollections of a bad…
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A brief history of in-yer-face theatre
Friday 1st July 2016
One from the archives: where did the label come from, and who first coined it?
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Whatever happened to in-yer-face theatre?
Friday 1st April 2016
One from the archives: the turbulent life and times of a Critic adrift on the ch…
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On remembering David Bowie
Monday 11th January 2016
The death of David Bowie provokes the Critic to take a trip down the motorways a…
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