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Archive for February, 2009

Michael Raab

No laughing matter: Political correctness in the theatre and in the academic world

by Michael Raab
Monday, February 23rd, 2009

When I uploaded my last theatreVOICE posting its title was: “Who pissed against Melbourne city gate?” – a job for Harold Pinter’s ghost. Mysteriously on the website the first half was missing. Naturally I assumed that the system was programmed to remove “offensive” words like “pissed”. Immediately Dominic Cavendish reassured me that the […]

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Dominic Cavendish

What a performance at the Critics Circle awards

by Dominic Cavendish
Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Although these are nervous times in critic-land, as they are in pretty much every other land you care to mention, including the one beginning with Ice, it’s always reassuring for those who fear the professional reviewer is a dying or doomed breed, to see luminaries from the world of British theatre turning out in force […]

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