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The Review - THEATRE by SONIA ZHURAVLYOVA
Published 30 November 2006
 
The Critic
Who came first? The critic or the playwright

THE CRITIC
Pentameters

“CRITICS all you do is criticise,” spits Osbourne (Dan Wilder), a disappointed playwright in Robert Shore’s new work The Critic.
When a sharp-tongued theatre reviewer slates Osbourne’s work, his victims decide to confront him.
The Critic is about the inter-dependent relationship of the playwright, the director, the actors, audience and finally of the reviewer himself.
They all appear to despise each other but obviously cannot do without one another. Who came first, this work cheekily enquires, the critic or the playwright?
Not only does The Critic examine this troubled relationship, but it explores the theme of where theatre ends and real life begins. With Conrad Blakemore’s masterful directing, the play goes as far as to involve the audience in this, thus placing us in a conundrum: Are we all just in one big play?
Shore is a critic himself so he has been on both sides of the fence, although the reviewer (Harry Meacher) is an obvious villain of the play and the work sympathises with the hard lot of the playwright and actors. Or maybe this is just the critic talking.
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