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Excuse me, you’re standing in my dead men’s shoes
28th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Theatre reviewing is a dead men's shoes business. One someone lands a chief critic position at a national newspaper, they'll traditionally hold onto that position until they're buried or senile. So for all the deputies and second-stream critics, and for all us up-and-comers watching hawklike for new deputy or second-stream opportunities, the voluntary retirement of two chief critics within a year of one another should have been a cause for...
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The Ultimate Critics’ Pick of the Fringe – part 2
17th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Previously on The Ultimate Critics' Pick of the Fringe 2009:
The 13 most anticipated shows of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as collectively selected by five major newspapers and magazines, are: Barflies, Beachy Head, A British Subject, The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church, Morecambe, Palace of the End, Sea Wall, Suckerville and The World's Wife, with two votes each; Blondes, Orphans and Theatre for Breakfast, with three votes each; and the... -
The Ultimate Critics’ Pick of the Fringe 2009 – part 1
13th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Official Programme has been available for about a month now. All the influential voices in theatre criticism have had plenty of time to comb through it and produce lists of recommendations. By analysing all these lists together, I've discovered this year's Ultimate Critics' Pick of the Fringe.
The Times, the Guardian, the London Evening Standard, the Scotsman and The List (the Scottish equivalent of Time Out)...
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Arts journalist Matt Boothman talks performance, playwriting and criticism from London's fringe, where theatre is both challenging and affordable.





