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RIGHT TO REPLY The Soho Theatre's Paul Sirett, co-translator of Dorota Maslowska's A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, defends the play against critical brick-bats, and asks why British reviewers have a problem with foreign writers. Aleks Sierz quizzes.

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“Are we still navel-gazing? When theatres do new work reviewers panic and don't take the time to investigate anything outside their comfort zone.”
  • Recorded on: 20-Mar-2008
  • Running Time: 20 mins 58 secs

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1. At 6:51:55 pm on 02-Apr-2008, Karen (Scotland) wrote

Blame pseuds corner in Private Eye or maybe even the Mighty Boosh (their Pies sketch would give any European absurdist play a hard time). Also - it's true that social realism has a higher cache than any other genre because it's the genre that's worthy - it highlights a problem and in theory prompts the audience into finding a solution.

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