Many directors crave critique as much as they fear it. But what happens behind the scenes after a public panning?
When an unfavourable review recently came out about her new play, Australian director Janine Watson did something she’d never done before. She contacted the reviewer.
Tim Byrne had called her 2022 production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, “waddlind”, and “full of errors, but nowhere near enough comedy”. Despite that, she thanked him.
