In the Soil
This is the mini-site for coverage of the In the Soil Arts Festival.
Embedded criticism: voices from the front lines
Embedded criticism involves an arts writer following a creative process closely and generating writing about the process that reflects this insider knowledge. The term was coined by London (UK)-based theatre critic and blogger Andrew Haydon in April 2012 and expanded on by the New York City-based arts writer and advocate Andy Horwitz in October of…
Theatre criticism colloquium – in images (day 2)
Theatre criticism colloquium – in images (day 1)
Behind the scenes at Shaw
Early Saturday morning on March 8, a group of five of us #DARTCritics headed to the Shaw Festival Theatre, to sit in on a rehearsal of director Peter Hinton’s production of Cabaret. With little idea of what to expect, and the buzz of coffee-charged chatter filling the small car, we made our way to the…
Critics, bloggers, and cultural legitimation
20 February 2014: As part of their preparation for our colloquium, The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age, the DARTcritics undertook research on a number of critics, bloggers, and others with an interest in their work, looking in particular at how online forms of communication (including social media) figure in their critical…
Utopian Theatre blog
As part of their participation in Jill Dolan’s visit to Brock and the theatre criticism colloquium, a group of DARTcritics have imagined a utopian theatre community online. Here is a link to their research on this: http://utopiantheatre.wordpress.com
Down in The Valley
30 January 2014: At the end of their embedding, and having read some of their classmates’ review responses to the production, the five students following the process of The Valley reflected on their experiences. Here are excerpts from what they wrote: Anthony Kuchar writes: In all the years I’ve been working and studying in theatre,…
