Comments on: Do Critics Look After Their Own? http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/02/do-critics-look-after-their-own/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Tim Wallers http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/02/do-critics-look-after-their-own/#comment-5864 Tim Wallers Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:08:55 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/02/do-critics-look-after-their-own/#comment-5864 Well.. to be fair "A Right Royal Farce" was shockingly bad. I should know, I was in it, and I think most people who saw it or who were involved in it pretty much thought it got what it deserved. The one before however, " Who's the Daddy" was quite well received by critics and audiences alike as I remember. What i would say is that as one who has written two plays and struggled to get them on, it probably doesn't do your chances of being produced any harm when you are a well known theatre critic. I'm looking forward to seeing the play,sounds interesting Well.. to be fair “A Right Royal Farce” was shockingly bad. I should know, I was in it, and I think most people who saw it or who were involved in it pretty much thought it got what it deserved. The one before however, ” Who’s the Daddy” was quite well received by critics and audiences alike as I remember. What i would say is that as one who has written two plays and struggled to get them on, it probably doesn’t do your chances of being produced any harm when you are a well known theatre critic. I’m looking forward to seeing the play,sounds interesting

]]> By: Ian Senior http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/02/do-critics-look-after-their-own/#comment-5799 Ian Senior Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:16:10 +0000 http://blogs.whatsonstage.com/2008/03/02/do-critics-look-after-their-own/#comment-5799 The reason why the cretics daren't attack De Jongh Corleone's play, whether it is good or bad, is because if they say it is rubbish, they are rubbishing their entire profession of which de Jongh Corleone is a major figure. The cretics were only able to tearinto Toby Young's play A Right Royal Farce at the King's Head (he was a theatre critic at the Spectator) because they were settling old grudges. Toby Young was an outsider who became a theatre cretic with no qualifications solely through Boris Johnson's nepotism. I committed the unpardonable sin of accusing other critics of sleeping through shows they were reviewing. No member of the West End's Cretinue would have the temerity to attack the leader of their band. Let's see whether De Jongh Corleone's Plague moves to the West End? That will be the real test. Ian Senior Former publisher of RCubedNews.com, the newsletter that for seven years did unto theatre cretics as they do unto others The reason why the cretics daren’t attack De Jongh Corleone’s play, whether it is good or bad, is because if they say it is rubbish, they are rubbishing their entire profession of which de Jongh Corleone is a major figure. The cretics were only able to tearinto Toby Young’s play A Right Royal Farce at the King’s Head (he was a theatre critic at the Spectator) because they were settling old grudges. Toby Young was an outsider who became a theatre cretic with no qualifications solely through Boris Johnson’s nepotism. I committed the unpardonable sin of accusing other critics of sleeping through shows they were reviewing.

No member of the West End’s Cretinue would have the temerity to attack the leader of their band.

Let’s see whether De Jongh Corleone’s Plague moves to the West End? That will be the real test.

Ian Senior
Former publisher of RCubedNews.com, the newsletter that for seven years did unto theatre cretics as they do unto others

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