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Review-ish: Harvard Sailing Team
By Jeff Kreisler on 05/06/2009
Filed under: On Stage, Review-ish
This is where I start getting in trouble. As a performer, I love/hate reviews. It's good to get some critical feedback, but some reviewers seem to have their own agenda, just trying to be sensationalist, stick out in crowd, or work through their own issues. There was a show at the Edinburgh Fringe last year which - I kid you not - was called "worse than the Holocaust." Yeah. And... reviews of "art" are frustratingly subjective. Our show "The Americans" got a meh review in one pub (the jokes "a sledgehammer to the face") while another said we had a... MORE »
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