There are many things to know about theatre. Maybe one day I will know them all. For now, I am satisfied with the following seven things I learned about theatre in the last 10 days: 1) The bit in Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin comes in to scream obscenities at all the salesmen was […]
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A moratorium on Shakespeare
From Lyn Gardner at the Guardian UK theatre blog, Should Shakespeare be barred?: “Shakespeare is our cultural medicine, often nasty but we swallow it all the same because like cod liver oil we think it must be good for us.” “As the US critic Gordon Rogoff so succinctly put it: ‘Shakespeare is feared by the […]