Is critical ignorance critical bliss?
The cast of The Drowsy Chaperone.It doesn't much happen anymore, but for a period of years I often found myself facing a friendly question like this one:"Oh - you're a critic? What did you think of Vanya on 42nd Street? That film was a-mazing. The best production of Chekhov I've ever seen!"Now I immediately knew from this statement that:a) the speaker was not a regular theatregoer, and what's more,b) he or she had ne…