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		<title>Intimate and Public Performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyn Gardner continues to be instinctively right, it seems to me, in her latest guardian blog about small-scale shows, even if I&#8217;m not sure she commits fully to her argument. I also saw Internal at BAC during Burst &#8211; it&#8217;s a piece for five audience (and five performers) that begins with parallel one-on-ones before opening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=37&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>being good isn&#8217;t being good enough</title>
		<link>http://notionaltheatre.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/being-good-isnt-being-good-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to do? It&#8217;s a golden age of London theatre. Is it? Sometimes I walk in and out of shows and am just knocked sideways by how slick and competent everything is. When it comes to product, we have got some top people and the public are lapping it up. And honestly, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=32&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why oh why</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do people go to the theatre for? I lay awake at night considering much more trivial issues, but that is kind of question that I allow to prevent me from doing productive work. I mean there&#8217;s all sorts of things &#8211; we like a bit of novelty, a bit of heart-swelling song, a jaw-dropping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=28&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not what you like, it&#8217;s when you come from&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://notionaltheatre.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/its-not-what-you-like-its-when-you-come-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 17:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a little flippant nibble over on encore about the &#8216;Hytner vs critics&#8217; debate that is exercising folk. I think that if theatre directors are willing to stick their heads above the parapet then those of us who are anonymous owe it to them to back them up by exercising significantly less courage. Hytner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=22&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>chop chop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m one of the people who isn&#8217;t getting their grants for the arts money because of this cut. It&#8217;s possible of course, given the mysterious round-table meetings that characterise the GFA process (&#8220;sorry, it was a busy week this time, so regardless of the quality of your application, tough shit&#8221;) that I wouldn&#8217;t have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=17&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>both pretentious and boring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been away (or busy maybe) for a bit and overwhelmed by the consistent requests for me to return to the blog. Not really, you&#8217;re all very discreet. So I had a look around to see what&#8217;s rousing folk in the london theatre blog world. Goodness. Everyone loves/hates Attempts on Her Life, and quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=16&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>shapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8216;s the frequently wise and always unashamedly clever (and why should he be, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it) Chris Goode gossiping about Robert Wilson; and somewhere in that lengthy post you&#8217;ll see him touch on formalism in theatre-making. He and Big Bob, he says, are the only people he can think of &#8220;who will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=15&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fin Kennedy has popped up a post admitting that he didn&#8217;t enjoy an opera (here it is). I have to say I felt similar when I recently went to see an opera (Jenufa at ENO). I read afterwards that it was a piercingly psychological production that broke new ground in realism, to which I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=14&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BAC &#8211; short-sighted local government</title>
		<link>http://notionaltheatre.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/bac-short-sighted-local-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now usually I like to keep out of the real world on the blog but this one is just too much. I can barely listen to an edition of the world at one without someone coming on and telling me there should be more local government (who is Tony Travers?). Well, the Wandsworth Council here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=13&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>gruntled</title>
		<link>http://notionaltheatre.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/gruntled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked past (but wasn&#8217;t at) the &#8216;devoted and disgruntled&#8217; event at BAC that Improbable have been curating. Everyone who&#8217;s anyone seemed to be there, talking &#8211; it looked to have been a massive success. I felt I was a little in dereliction of my duty to have avoided it. There seems to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=notionaltheatre.wordpress.com&amp;blog=343546&amp;post=12&amp;subd=notionaltheatre&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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