In case you missed it, The Globe and Mail’s national theatre critic, J. Kelly Nestruck, has started a Globe theatre blog called Nestruck on Theatre:
“This is where critic J. Kelly Nestruck posts his review after-thoughts and keeps an eye on what’s going on in theatre across Canada and around the world.”
This is a new level of engagement in Canadian criticism, and a big push in the right direction for the Canadian theatrosphere. And barely a week in and the fur is already flying – as Canadian directing legend Morris Panych takes Nestruck to task on the semantics of a “slanted perspective.”
Awesome.
Yes, Nestruck’s use of “slanted perspective” was a bit glib, but he’s acknowledged as much, and you sure can’t imagine this sort of glasnost coming from the Sun, the Star, or Nestruck’s utterly unmissed predecessor.
BUT. Panych. Thin skin. Wow, touchy. As Stephen Sondheim himself once wrote: “stay cooly cool, boy”.
Yeah, I have to say, I’m kind of excited to see all these theatre blogs. Nestruck had a blog before (off the fence), but this has the Globe behind it, so it will have a bigger draw.
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Megan Mooney
http://www.mooneyontheatre.com