We must pay attention to audience experience in all of its rich, divergent, fascinating complexity, rather than encouraging anti-expertise or simply capturing consensus, argues Kirsty Sedgman.
2018 was the year that Lyn Gardner found herself, with one week left to go at the Edinburgh Festival, still struggling to track down that elusive beast: the five-star show. Despite having seen a lot of good shows, as well as some very nice shows, she still hadn’t seen the show: one of the Fringe’s annual ‘standout hits’.
But in an artistic climate that is increasingly – often very deliberately – challenging traditional notions of ‘qualit... Keep reading on Exeunt
2018 was the year that Lyn Gardner found herself, with one week left to go at the Edinburgh Festival, still struggling to track down that elusive beast: the five-star show. Despite having seen a lot of good shows, as well as some very nice shows, she still hadn’t seen the show: one of the Fringe’s annual ‘standout hits’.
But in an artistic climate that is increasingly – often very deliberately – challenging traditional notions of ‘qualit... Keep reading on Exeunt