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We lack enough good criticism. Michael Coveney’s argument here here says essentially that.
Other art forms may also bemoan their critics. Modern photography has very little thoughtful criticism (John Berger, Susan Sontag aside), dance and poetry are too rarefied and often ‘art’ (in all it aspects) criticism is either too academic or too facile.
One point to […]
Zahid Mubarek was an Asian teenager sentenced to 90 days in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institute for stealing £6’s worth of razor blades and interfering with a car. On 20 March 2000, the day he was due for release, he was attacked by his violently racist cell-mate, Robert Stewart. Mubarek died a week later.
Tanika Gupta turns […]
The BBC are trying to make Slough happy.
Led by Richard Stevens, a psychologist of well being, he’s distilled his philosophy into 10 ideas just for the Slough experiment:
They run in no particular order:
-exercise three times a week
-count your blessings at the end of each day
-talk for an hour to your partner three times a week
-grow […]
David Edgar writes about defending free speech in the performing arts. I didn’t think it was so under attack, still Edgar writes convincingly:
“…Behind all of this is the idea that there are subjects too important, too profound, too dangerous for writing (and painting, and performing, and even reporting) to touch. Behind that is an assumption […]
Strangely, there are not many theatre blogs out there. Especially, in the UK
The Stage has one by Mark Shenton
There’s
http://opoorrobinsoncrusoe.blogspot.com/ playwright, Stephen Sharkey’s blog
The director, Paul Miller’s blog, http://pm67.blogspot.com sadly now not updated.
And http://encoretheatremagazine.blogspot.com/ [also a little out of date]
and http://blog.theweddingcollective.org/ again not updated much
When will more theatre […]
Spat on Radio 4 between Joan Rivers and Darcus Howe, moderated by Libby Purves.
What amuses me is imagining all the R4 listeners as this spat erupts…
Darcus Howe: … since black offends Joan.
Joan Rivers: Wait. Just stop right now. Black does not offend me. How dare you. How dare you say that. Black offends me? You […]
Nadia makes a good point in animals vs. humans. She suggests animals do not have a sense of justice.
I think others might also argue for:
Reason, inquiry, wonder, longing, religion, morality, aesthetics, creativity, imagination, aspiration, humour…
and other “human” qualities.
However, the counter-argument would then run that all of those qualities including a sense of justice only comes […]
Article in Guardian annoucing the “Booker prize for Playwrights”
The Manchester Royal Exchange theatre announces the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition, a “national contest to discover and celebrate Britain’s best writers for the theatre”. Launching next month, the competition has a prize fund of £45,000 and offers the winner a fully staged production in the Royal Exchange’s […]
The headline goes: “Theatres must stop producing so many new plays and focus more on the classics”
says Mark Ravenhill in the Guardian
This isn’t quite what he is trying to say. It’s better summed up by:
“It’s time for a shakeup, for a new wave of energy in our theatre. And we shouldn’t look to this from […]