Soap Box Debate: Critics Are Parasites and Eunuchs

SOAP BOX DEBATE: THEATRE IS BETTER THAN FILM Critic Michael Billington and director Rupert Goold propose the motion while film producer Nik Powell and ICA chief Ekow Eshun oppose. Rachel Halliburton and Patrick Marmion host at the Menier Chocolate Fa...

THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE CENTENARY CONFERENCE: 100 YEARS OF CRITICISM Historical session on the theme of How did it start? With Frances Hughes, Chair of the Irving Society, on criticism a century ago and Nicholas de Jongh, critic and playwright, on crit...

HONEYMOON SUITE Divided opinions greet Richard Bean's latest at the Royal Court. David Benedict, Jane Edwardes, Patrick Marmion and Carole Woddis discuss. Rachel Halliburton hosts.

RAISING THE BAR: RELEVANCE Opening the Theatre 2005 Conference sessions, Lyn Gardner, Guardian critic, challenges the notion that theatre is a dying art form.