critics

Question 1

Sean Carney

Answer 1

‘a hollow, commercialised mockery of May fertility… plastic and vapid and meaningless…activities that were once lively collective expressions of human experience and community’

Question 2

Michael Billington

Answer 2

‘drama as a form of national enquiry’

Question 3

Andrew Marr

Answer 3

‘financial hangover and confrontations with travellers’ - performed again in 2011 in the Apollo at time of Dale Farm and anti- capitalism protests

Question 4

Paul Kingsnorth: ‘if there is an English tradition…

Answer 4

…worth celebrating…our tendency towards rebellion, dissent and resistance’

Question 5

Alice Jahanpour: ‘Phaedra in Act 3…seems to be

Answer 5

the more confident, even predatory one’

Question 6

George Norton: ‘In the…

Answer 6

…’real’ world, Johnny would inevitably be defeated’

tragedy ending of the comedic play

Question 7

Sean Carney: ‘enormous thudding footsteps’ even though not published in the script

Answer 7

about the Rickson Production - hope for england is it the giant? or is it the council? open ending

Question 8

savage appetite for sacrifice - Rabey