How to Write About Theatre
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How to Write About Theatre

A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

Mark Fisher

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How to Write About Theatre

A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

Mark Fisher

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What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you? Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher answers such questions with candour, wit and insight. Learning lessons from history's leading critics and taking examples from around the world, he gives practical advice about how to celebrate, analyse and discuss this most ephemeral of art forms - and how to make your writing come alive as you do so. Today, more people than ever are writing about theatre, but whether you're blogging, tweeting or writing an academic essay, your challenges as a critic remain the same: how to capture a performance in words, how to express your opinions and how to keep the reader entertained. This inspirational book shows you the way to do it. Foreword by Chris Jones, Chief theater critic, Chicago Tribune

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Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2015
ISBN
9781472520562
Edition
1
Topic
Sprachen & Linguistik
Subtopic
Kreatives Schreiben
INTRODUCTION
9
Notes 
1
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S. 
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T. 
Caslon, 
T. 
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H. 
Woodgate 
and 
S. 
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2
Coleridge, 
Samuel 
Taylor 
(1907), 
Coleridge’s 
Lectures 
on 
Shakespeare 
and 
Other 
Poets 
and 
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, 
J. 
M. 
Dent 
& 
Sons. 
3
Mamet, 
David 
(1994), 
‘A 
National 
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in 
A 
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and 
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4
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(2013), 
State 
of 
Play: 
Theatre 
UK
, 
http://blog.ticketmaster 
\
(co.uk/news/theatre-uk-evolving-engaging-2013–2209). 
5
Hoyle, 
Ben 
(14 
May 
2007), 
‘Dead 
white 
men 
in 
the 
critic’s 
chair 
scorning 
work 
of 
women 
directors’, 
in 
The 
Times
. 
6
Applebaum, 
Anne 
(2013), 
Iron 
Curtain: 
The 
Crushing 
of 
Eastern 
Europe 
1944–56
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7
Engel, 
Lehman 
(1976), 
The 
Critics
, 
Macmillan. 
10

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