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Dateline: 15th May, 2007
Following less than enthusiastic reviews of A Matter of Life and Death from the daily broadsheets, the National Theatre's artistic director Nicholas Hytner has attacked theatre critics. "They would be horrified by the accusation, but I’m afraid I’m making it," he told The Times. "I think it’s fair enough to say that too many of the theatre critics are dead white men." He accused many of the critics of producing "misogynistic reviews" of the work of Katie Mitchell, for example. "Everything they say is predicated on her sex," he added. "I think it’s a very good thing that at least on Sunday there’s a female voice or two amongst the theatre critics," he said, and added that it also worried him that some of the critics were actually in their posts when he was at university. "I won’t stay in my job for as long as they stay in theirs," he said. "When I become a dead white male, I will only be hired to do dead white male theatre." In fact, although the dailies did slam the production, which was directed by Emma Rice, Susannah Clapp in The Observer and Kate Bassett in The Independent were more positive. Indeed the former was very enthusiastic. And indeed some of the male reviewers - not least John Thaxter in The Stage and Philip Fisher in the BTG - were also very positive. Read Philip Fisher's response to Hytner's criticisms Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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