What’s So Special About Critics’ Night?
This I can’t fathom. The new King Lear at the RSC has been on for two months but it has only just been reviewed. Michael Billington writes in The Guardian that:
“It is no exaggeration to say that this King Lear is long-awaited. Critics, in fact, have been waiting impatiently for nine weeks to get a glimpse of a production that has been playing to a paying public. But, however absurd the delay, I can report that Ian McKellen is a majestic, moving Lear and that Trevor Nunn’s production, while nothing like as radical as Brook’s or Hytner’s, is largely satisfying.”
Er, why did he have to wait to be asked? Couldn’t he have bought a ticket two months ago? Or am I missing something?
Tim Worstall said on June 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 am:
Ed, please, you’re a bright guy. Don’t you know that such a thing would violate the most basic of all journalistic ethics?
Never spend your own money?
Alice said on June 2nd, 2007 at 4:18 pm:
You can’t expect a critic to buy a ticket Ed! That would be absurd…
Sue said on June 2nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm:
LOL, that’s just what I was going to say!!
Alice said on June 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 am:
Great minds…