Theatre Criticism

Duška Radosavljevic is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. In 1998 she won the Harold Hobson Sunday Times Student Drama Critic Award and has written hundreds of theatre, dance and comedy reviews for the Stage Newspaper. She has also worked as the Dramaturg for the Northern Stage Ensemble and as an education practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is the author of Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century and the editor of The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers. She has also contributed articles and book chapters to four Bloomsbury Methuen Drama edited collections.

Contents:

Duška Radosavljevic - Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes

I Contexts and Histories of Theatre Criticism

George Hunka - Style Versus Substance: American Theatre Criticism Since 1945

Valda Cakare - The Problem of Reliability: Theatre Criticism in Latvia

Savas Patsalidis - From the Uncritical Certainties of Modernism to the Critical Uncertainties of Postmodernism: Reviewing Theatre in Greece

Kristina Matvienko - Russian Theatre Criticism: In Search of Contemporary Relevance

Margherita Laera - How to Get Your Hands Dirty: Old and New Models of ‘Militant’ Theatre Criticism in Italy

Vasco Boenisch - What German Theatre Critics Think and What Their Readers Expect: An Empirical Analysis of Misunderstandings

Andrew Haydon - A Brief History of Online Theatre Criticism in England

II Critics’ Voices

Mark Fisher - Do They Mean Me? A Survey of Fictional Theatre Critics

Mark Brown - Between Journalism and Art: The Location of Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

Jill Dolan - Code-Switching and Constellations: On Feminist Theatre Criticism

Maddy Costa - The Critic as Insider: Shifting UK Critical Practice Towards ‘Embedded’ Relationships and the Routes This Opens Up Towards Dialogue and Dramaturgy

III Changing Forms and Functions of Criticism

Diana Damian Martin - Criticism as a Political Event

Matthew Reason - Conversation and Criticism: Audiences and Unfinished Critical Thinking

Michelle MacArthur - Crowdsourcing the Review and the Record: A Collaborative Approach to Theatre Criticism and Archiving in the Digital Age

Nataša Govedic - Articism (Art + Criticism) and the Live Birds of Passionate Response

William McEvoy - Performative Criticism and Creative Critical Writing

IV Samples of Critical Practice

Alison Croggon - How to Think Like a Theatre Critic

Open Dialogues - NOTA

Alice Saville - Huff

Megan Vaughan - Teh Internet is a Serious Business