How to Write About Theatre: A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you panned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave review will anyone believe you?

Drawing on his long years of experience as a journalist and theatre critic, Mark Fisher (author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Club) answers such questions with candour, wit and insight. Learning lessons from history's leading critics and taking examples from around the world, he offers practical advice about how to celebrate, analyse and discuss this most ephemeral of art forms and how to make your writing come alive as you do so.

Today, more people than ever are writing about theatre, but whether you're blogging, tweeting or writing an academic essay, the challenges as a critic remain the same: how to capture a performance in words, how to express your opinions, and how to keep the reader entertained. This inspirational book shows you how to go about it and overcome these challenges.

How to Write About Theatre features a foreword by Chris Jones, chief theatre critic of the Chicago Tribune. 

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