Mapping the New Critical Terrain: Rules, Ethics, Hierarchies

Abstract

Ongoing changes in the media landscape have led to a greater diversity of forms for theatre criticism in Canada. Criticism now appears on personal blogs and group reviewing websites, on social media, and via online features supported by theatre companies, as well as in newspapers and specialist magazines. Through contributions from a range of Canadian theatre critics, including Richard Ouzounian, Megan Mooney, and Rodrigo Flores, this article responds to the diversification of critical forms, mapping the terms, expectations, and hierarchies that are defining English-language theatre criticism in twenty-first-century Canada.