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Wild Bore Performance Targets Theatre Critics’ Authority

8/14/2026

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The Traverse in Scotland hosted the performance-art piece Wild Bore, which attacked the notion of critical authority.
Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Inspector Hound satirizes theatre criticism.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy The Critic mocks reviewers’ pretensions.
The 1970s horror film Theatre of Blood, later adapted to stage, depicts critics being murdered by a deranged thespian.

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Story summary

The Traverse in Scotland hosted the performance-art piece Wild Bore, which attacked the notion of critical authority.
Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Inspector Hound satirizes theatre criticism.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy The Critic mocks reviewers’ pretensions.
The 1970s horror film Theatre of Blood, later adapted to stage, depicts critics being murdered by a deranged thespian.