by Mark Fisher
Published by Bloomsbury
Whether you are a student looking to enhance your critical writing skills for A Level, telling your friends about a show you’ve seen or planning a career as a theatre critic – or indeed already a critic – this book offers great advice. Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher helps you learn lessons from history’s leading critics, taking examples from around the world. He gives 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. With more people than ever writing about theatre – blogging, tweeting or writing an academic essay – your 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 the way to do it.