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Bush Theatre re-opens to unsolicited script submissions
7th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The moment the Bush Theatre axed its script reading team, citing a lack of funds, was the moment the recession became real for me. Beforehand I'd been taking my usual naïve/optimistic view of the situation, confident that it couldn't be as bad as the media made it out to be, and that it would soon blow over with no major consequences. The discontinuation of script reading at one of London's...
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Arts futurism – theatre in the newsfeeds of the future
4th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Arts Futurism is an occasional strand in which I discuss, based on current developments, what might be next for the arts.
So let's assume for the moment that print newspapers are, indeed, nearing the end point of a lengthy and unintended suicide at the hands of their own free online content distribution systems. Let's briefly put aside the alternative theories and concentrate on the one where the presses are silenced and... -
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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