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Lyn Gardner fully expects to be replaced by Katie Price
1st March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The national newspapers' habit of replacing their retired head theatre critics with columnists and political sketchwriters is pretty worrying for those of us on the bottom rungs of the theatre criticism career ladder, as I pointed out in January, when The Times announced Libby Purves would be replacing Benedict Nightingale in their top spot.
Well, it turns out up-and-comers like me aren't the only ones concerned by the trend: some of... -
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 3
24th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Previously: Part 1 | Part 2
So why do critics bother compiling advance Pick of the Fringe Programme lists at all?The socially acceptable reason is to provide Fringe patrons with navigation points. The programme's Theatre section contains hundreds of shows, each one summed up in maybe twenty words. That makes it difficult to sift the diamonds from the dross, especially when many of the shows are world premieres and many of...
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