The Critic is launching a new arts podcast, Critical Mash. It is hosted by our opera correspondent, and President of the Critics' Circle, Robert Thicknesse. He will be joined by co-hosts Lucy Lethbridge, the author of the social histories Servants and Tourists, formerly literary editor of The Tablet, and a critic of TV and art, and by Yehuda Shapiro, who writes principally for Opera magazine and contributes reviews and features to The Stage.
Their guests for our inaugural episode are composer Elena Langer and theatre director Joe Hill-Gibbins, both of whom have helped bring problematic operatic bad boys to the stage — in the form of Langer's Figaro Gets a Divorce and Hill-Gibbins' new staging of Duke Bluebeard's Castle for ENO.
Critical Mash will be our regular, and of course, critical examination of the arts. Prepare to be amused, annoyed, entertained and informed, as a dazzling choir of dissident luminaries bless the digital airwaves. Trigger Warning! This episode contains misogynoir, eye-gouging, heteronormativity and Bert Thicknesse. | 
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