[Jan Brock]

An amusing report here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/2...he-line-of-fire

Anyone ever seen any critics in a simiular state ? (A good chance to mention again the truly alarming occasion when Nicholas de Jong sat in the Young Vic naked from the waist up)

Also, an amusing account of an internecine spat involving the feeble Ian Shuttleworth(though I doubt any of you have heard of him).

[Marius Pontmercy]

Private Eye also reported on Shuttleworth vs. Walker this week: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?...&issue=1250

[Laughingmonsta]

I have seen many critics so drunk they have left the show at the interval or not even sit through one minute of act one and yet still find it easy to write a review for the press deadline, I know for a fact a few national newspapers wrote reviews for Imagine This but not even turn up to review!

[JonnyBoy]

I know for a fact a few national newspapers wrote reviews for Imagine This but not even turn up to review!

Well, that is a disgrace. Those reviewers should no longer be in a job. It is particularly upsetting when the damning reviews played a major part in closing the show prematurely. Does a doctor write a prescription without knowing anything about the patient? No, so don't review a show without seeing it.

[Job]

Also, an amusing account of an internecine spat involving the feeble Ian Shuttleworth(though I doubt any of you have heard of him).

I can't help wondering, Jan: is that a slur on Ian Shuttleworth or on us?

I've certainly sat next to him a few times. Not something you forget in a hurry - particularly when you consider that pound for pound I could probably give Mr S a run for his curry.

[Lynette]

I wonder if this is the guy I moved from at the Joe Orton play once? We found seats in another part of the theatre, not such good seats but more comfortable!

[Weez]

I've certainly heard of Ian Shuttleworth (and hope the aspersions are being cast on him rather than us), but Tim Walker's a new one to me.

[Jan Brock]

I can't help wondering, Jan: is that a slur on Ian Shuttleworth or on us?

Both - we are almost identical to Shuttleworth, spouting our ill-informed opinions ad nauseum and unread by anyone else on sparsely-populated blogs and discussion boards for our own gratification. The only difference is Shuttleworth apparently also gets paid by a national newspaper to perform this worthless activity.

(Q: If each of us was represented by a Shakespearean character, who would you be ? I'm giving Timon of Athens a go).

[Weez]

Both - we are almost identical to Shuttleworth, spouting our ill-informed opinions ad nauseum and unread by anyone else on sparsely-populated blogs and discussion boards for our own gratification. The only difference is Shuttleworth apparently also gets paid by a national newspaper to perform this worthless activity.

(Q: If each of us was represented by a Shakespearean character, who would you be ? I'm giving Timon of Athens a go).

I will forever remember Timon of Athens as "the one where a grown man crawls around in his pants" (which is pithy, but at least I can remember it at all). O_O (As for me, it may sound like I'm flattering myself, but definitely Beatrice. I talk a lot, a lot of it is incomprehensible, and I'm a fully-rounded character in my own right who doesn't need a man to give her depth.)