NDJ hearts JH

Review – Plague Over England by Nicholas de Jongh, Finborough Theatre

Well, what a disappointment.

Not the play. That was fine.

But the critical reception? Very disappointing.

In which de Jongh receives support from an unlikely quarter

Oliver’s duff media diary in today’s Independent viewspaper “exposes” the propensity of the Evening Standard’s chief critic to nod off during plays:

Saint Joan – a case of miSTAKEn identity?

The Whingers are rather concerned that an innocent woman may have been needlessly burnt at the stake.

Two dead white males respond to Mr Hytner

Quite what Mr Hytner (who didn’t come to our party) expected to achieve with his night of the long butterknives, we don’t know. But if he was expecting the dailies to summarily dump their dead white male reviewers and replace them with one-legged, black, working class lesbians from the north of England he is presumably somewhat disappointed.

Fight! Fight! Hytner takes on the critics

Hytner lays into the critics and De Jongh fights back. The knives are out.