National theatre: do audience responses play out along country lines?
At a theatre summit in Spain, each critic's opinion seemed to bear the influence of their nationality. What's your own experience of how prejudices play out?How much does our nationality influence our reaction to a play? It isn't something I've ever really considered: as a writer about theatre, I judge a production on how successful I feel it is in rising to the challenges presented by the play. I'd never wondered wh…