'Sometimes gigs are news stories too'Sometimes reviews aren't just reviews, they are news. We newspaper critics tend to present our work in topical terms " and one way of doing that is to graft it on (sometimes effortfully) to current affairs. Few reviews of the 1940s poverty drama Men Should Weep, at the National recently, failed to reference the 2010 economic crisis; the Independent's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46PM on November 23, 2010