Sunday, February 12, 2012

Never say never: why theatre critics should keep an open mind

7:32 PM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

examiners who refuse to cover certain types of theater are hurting the art. And I know

John Gielgud once said he sympathized with critics. It must be terrible, he thought, of having to constantly review the work of artists did not like. Well, this issue has recently come to a head in New York. Charles Isherwood, one of theater critics of The New York Times, has officially announced that it does not cover works of Adam Rapp, even with a shroud, since the heart does not like most of them for a period of 10 years.

  • I understand the point of Isherwood, but I think he is wrong. Clearly, critics, like everyone else, have prejudices against certain forms of theater, or even individuals. Nearly 30 years, the guard asked me to write an article on my own what - on the fly - including puppets, mimes and works allegorical character called man, woman or assistant to flow. The result, as I recall, was a wave of invitations to attend festivals of puppet and mime, while East Anglia, in Liege, in an attempt to achieve a conversion of Pauline. And finally, I hope I've learned to overcome what was once a myopic bias. I remember sitting spellbound before a puppet version of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at the Little Angel Theatre in London, and the expressive power of pantomime was brought to me by a number of companies, including their first Complicity days.
In short, I think it is wrong for a more critical for the grades below. In so doing, it denies the possibility of a change of heart. Certainly there are times when it is tempting to adopt the tactics of evasion. I can not say I'll run in the future for the work of Italian director Romeo Castellucci, whose latest play is based on an old stool uncontrollable. I also believe that the musical jukebox, which is to plunder the back catalogs of artists, is being depleted in a sense, even if, paradoxically, I have much pleasure in Million Dollar Quartet. But I suspect that the extreme cold can stop me from attending future adaptations of Jane Austen's novels that compress their plots, while sacrificing his assistant irony.

may, however, discreetly, in the absence of himself and ask a colleague to review without making a big fuss about it. I also think it was a mistake as to publicly proclaim their Isherwood boycott games Adam Rapp denies any change of attitude on the part of any critic or artist. In fact I was asked two years ago by a British director and writer to stay away from work: a request politely declined because I am excited to see what he does next. I also had the odd altercation with the manager of a popular London'm convinced rootedly hostile to his theater and his work: I, of course, that my criticisms are justified rationally, rather than relying on prejudice . But it would be stupid of me to say that never darken their doors again. One of the main qualities of a spokesperson is the infinite capacity to be surprised. And that will never see a playwright who does not like, Isherwood left side down and deserves to take the Rapp.


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