17.3.14

walk me home, run to the theatre (at TFPO)

Although no longer on stage - what is it with 2-week runs? - the follow review should be a call to keep an eye for future Theatre by the Blind productions.

In anticipation of Theatre by the Blind’s Walk Me Home, I was cautioned (twice!) to be gentle and keep in mind that this is not a professional acting troupe. Setting aside the implication, intentional or otherwise, that I might be an unusually tough critic, the warnings were unnecessary. Professionalism isn’t an indispensable hallmark of good theatre, rendering moot the arguably condescending prerequisite to lower expectations or relax the critical standards against which all theatrical productions are measured. Read the rest of my review at  THE FRONT PAGE ONLINE.

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