ESSAY: Criticizing Criticism

Show Showdown. New Theater Corps. My work here. In part of my year-long adventure and process experimentation to find a place for not just my voice, but that of the community, and to find growth--survival, sometimes--in the theater, I've been working on a manifesto of sorts: what it means, to me, to review something. The following is a link to the actual concept that I've been kicking around and developing in my head, and I'm hoping some of you will take the time to respond with ideas and thoughts of your own on the state of criticism. No more arbitration of taste; just a beautiful dialogue of artists, each doing their own thing.

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