Melissa Poll

Melissa is currently a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway and a recipient of the college's Reid Research Scholarship. After completing her BFA and MA at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, she began working as a freelance critic and theatre lecturer. Melissa's reviews of English, French and Quebecois theatre have appeared in The Vancouver Sun and Vancouverplays.com as well as the British Theatre Guide.

Reviews

Features

The Women of Birdland: Charlotte Randle, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Yolanda Kettle

What about the birds?

By failing to note Birdland's representation of women, in what ways are we giving English playwriting's contemporary rock star carte blanche?
The Edward Curtis Project

After The Island: EcoCentrix and Invisible Postcolonial Realities

In response to reviews suggesting that Athol Fugard's Apartheid era drama The Island is no longer timely, Melissa Poll offers a Canadian rebuttal based on EcoCentrix: Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

Who's Really in Bed with the Embedded Critic?

Melissa Poll takes a closer look at the ethical issues behind the new 'it' concept in cultural commentary, embedded criticism.

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