As it turns out (referring to yesterday’s post) the website Alison Croggon co-founded and jointly edits with Robert Reid appears to leave theater reviews in front of the paywall and not behind. (That means I have a bit of a backlog to slog, though not too much, the site being extant none too long.)
Only Croggon’s reviews interest me much, not the other bloke’s, and part of the reason is the contextualization she (sometimes) brings to a merely local and temporal event. Take, for example, the review linked here. It is hard, off in Chicago, to muster up much interest in the play. But take a gander at paragraphs 6-9 (beginning “Who and what human beings are…" through to “by definition, not human”) and you'll see what I mean.
That said, other commitments probably preclude much archive prowling for the time being. Much as I enjoy the inestimable Croggon’s reviewery and critical peregrinations, such as leave their trace in non paywall-protected internet mews and alleyways, I have business elsewhere. I suspect the best—and more generalist—is not available (even as her own website restricts access). ’Tis pity but ’tis so.
Only Croggon’s reviews interest me much, not the other bloke’s, and part of the reason is the contextualization she (sometimes) brings to a merely local and temporal event. Take, for example, the review linked here. It is hard, off in Chicago, to muster up much interest in the play. But take a gander at paragraphs 6-9 (beginning “Who and what human beings are…" through to “by definition, not human”) and you'll see what I mean.
That said, other commitments probably preclude much archive prowling for the time being. Much as I enjoy the inestimable Croggon’s reviewery and critical peregrinations, such as leave their trace in non paywall-protected internet mews and alleyways, I have business elsewhere. I suspect the best—and more generalist—is not available (even as her own website restricts access). ’Tis pity but ’tis so.
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