Tag: Theatre Criticism

  • A theatremaker’s plea: do shut up

    I know better than to waste my time arguing with lazy clickbait articles. I do. It’s just… sometimes I can’t resist. The piece of lazy clickbait in question is this article in The Telegraph, courtesy of Douglas McPherson. He is a theatre critic. In the theatre he toils not, neither does he spin, as someone…

  • A lengthy round-up of what people are saying about CSstooshie now

    Creative Scotland is the arts blogger’s gift that keeps on giving. How appropriate, as we head into the festive season. But there are gifts and gifts, and this one feels like one of those annoying noisy battery-devouring things where once you start playing, you somehow can’t stop. Perhaps that’s just me. I’m a bit tired…

  • Open Space Invitation

    The details of the Artists’ Open Space on the 26th are now finalised and you can click here to register for it. It’s free to attend, but there’s a limit the number of people who’ll fit in the room so best to register. Please spread the word. And please come if you can. The Open…

  • An Invitation

    A short post today, because I’m full of the cold and barely know my own name so coherent content is beyond me. I never got round to writing a post about my experiences at Devoted & Disgruntled. It was at the end of July, which meant that by the time I’d got my thoughts together…

  • Disheartened & Dejected: Reflections on a Reflection Meeting

    Deep in the labyrinth that is Creative Scotland’s website lay the announcement of an open meeting to discuss the recent Theatre Sector Review. I only heard about it through social media and then found the details with a bit of creative googling. Maybe this explains why the turnout wasn’t higher. It wasn’t bad, but for…

  • Reviewing a review of reviews, both as reviewer and reviewed

    First things first – I strongly recommend reading this post by the excellent Jenni Gould: http://rantingjen.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/arts-journalism-where-did-it-go-wrong/ Don’t want to click the link? Let me give you a precis: The Fringe is full of untrained reviewers churning out masses of reviews, and Ms Gould suggests that we should be holding ourselves to higher standards because “many of…