One Night Stands. A Critic´s View of Modern British Theatre

This classic of theatre criticism is re-issued -with a new Foreword by the author - to mark his thirtieth year as a drama critic; One Night Stands is Michael Billington´s own selection from twenty years of reviewing theatre for the Guardian - from 1971-1991. Ten years on, he is still at the Guardian: the longest serving theatre critic still writing - and by far the most respected. Arranged chronologically, with a five-thousand word introduction on the role of the critic, these reviews and occasional ´think pieces´ add up to an authoritative yet highly personal history of the British theatre over two vital decades at the end of the twentieth century.