Slow Reviews

Theatre reviews traditionally race against time - capturing the immediacy of performance. Many of the reviews on this site are something different, something like a "slow" review.

A slow review cannot tell you if you should book tickets. These are writings that emerge from what remains after months or even years have passed. They are less concerned with what happened and more interested in what remains. Even those things that may be misremembered and are often incomplete.

Slow reviews might explore:

• Moments that surface unexpectedly years later
• How productions connect across time to other works
• The way certain theatrical solutions stick in the mind
• What remains when the specifics blur
• How understanding of a work deepens or shifts with time
• The understandings that emerge only through distance

These are not meant to replace traditional reviews but to complement them. Or perhaps to complicate them.

What did happen in that performance? What is still happening?