Morning Sacrifice
by Dymphna Cusack
State Theatre
Playhouse
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Reviving a play can often be a damnable business. You are damned if you do it and even more damned if you don’t. There was some lively discussion around our part of the stalls, for instance, about whether Morning Sacrifice was worth the evening sacrifice or not. One heatedly dismissed the play as a waste of time but a number, including several teachers, quietly and keenly defended.
Dymphna …
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Critical Conditions
1994
Murray Bramwell
“My criticism has not, I hope, any other fault than the inevitable one of extreme unfairness.”
So wrote George Bernard Shaw in Our Theatre in the Nineties. He was writing of his Nineties, not ours, but it is notable that many of the conventions of reviewing today are indelibly Edwardian. Or at least you might say that nothing much has changed. Except that the vigorous, impassioned, lucid criticism that Shaw produced by the boatload was both more …
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