Overview

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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A perfect introduction to what could be a lifetime of pleasure in and around theatres ... Mark Fisher has written an intelligent and insightful manual for critics, students and bloggers that will help those studying theatre criticism to understand their chosen trade and pursue it more effectively. -- Philip Fisher British Theatre Guide [An] entertaining and informative must-read for budding, blooming or even slightly bloomed theatre critics. It is clearly written, widely researched and in the typically even handed and generous style of the author. -- Irene Brown EdinburghGuide.com

A perfect introduction to what could be a lifetime of pleasure in and around theatres ... Mark Fisher has written an intelligent and insightful manual for critics, students and bloggers that will help those studying theatre criticism to understand their chosen trade and pursue it more effectively. -- Philip Fisher British Theatre Guide

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Mark Fisher is one of Scotland's foremost commentators on the arts. With over 25 years' experience, he is the Scottish theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List and a freelance contributor to Variety, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. He is the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (""A wonderfully practical but also inspirational book full of good advice"" - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian) and the co-editor of Made in Scotland, an anthology of plays published by Methuen Drama.

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