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Archive for September, 2009

Michael Raab

In praise of Kenneth Tynan

by Michael Raab
Friday, September 25th, 2009

As Dominic Cavendish asked me to put the text up on the website, I’ll renege on my announcement not to write another blog and am posting as the last one for the road a short speech I gave when awarded the journalism prize of the Anglistentag at Klagenfurt this week:
When I still thought […]

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Michael Raab

To direct or not to direct

by Michael Raab
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Trends in Edinburgh this year were more or less self-indulgent autobiographical ramblings, a mind-numbing tendency to camouflage by meta-theatrical devices that you didn’t have much to say in the first place and a predilection by some dramatists to venture onto the territory of the musical.
With David Greig’s Midsummer and Che Walker’s Been So […]

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