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You know, I feel sort of bad for criticising the play I reviewed yesterday. A local fellow goes to all the trouble of producing a piece of theatre, slaving over a script, wrangling actors, workshopping his creation, and moving seven different kinds of heaven and earth to get his brainchild up on stage, and what happens? He gets snarked at by some random guy on some random blog and, thanks to the vagaries of Google, this review is likely to be the only one that comes up when someone searches for the name of his play.


Not that I'm going to recant or anything. That'd be disingenuous. However, I will suggest a method of finding the silver lining behind this critical cloud. Through the process of selective quotation, even the worst review can be mined for nuggets of positivity, which can then be used to promote one's work. Anyone wishing to boost "Urban Primate" can feel free to take and use these genuine quotes from yesterday's review, and thus give the impression that this was a tour de force that made Henrik Ibsen look like Dan Brown:


"intimate"

"an epiphany"

"it pays to be up close"

"fascinating, not just interesting"


Gee, I almost want to see it again now. Fear the awesome power of selective quotation!