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Mert Dilek

Mert Dilek is a critic and dramaturg based in London and Cambridge. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Cambridge, where he holds the Camilla Mash Studentship at Trinity College. He received his M.Phil. with distinction also from Cambridge and holds a B.A. in English and Political Science from Yale University. As a theatre critic and arts journalist, he regularly contributes reviews and features to The StageExeunt Magazine, and The Theatre Times. He also collaborates with playwrights and theatre companies as a dramaturg: he worked as a script reader for the Arcola Theatre and Bush Theatre, and currently serves on the Reading Panel at the National Theatre. For more information, please visit his website at mertdilek.co.uk. Mert tweets at @mertdilek95.






BWW Review: CROWD, Sadler's Wells
BWW Review: CROWD, Sadler's Wells
October 9, 2019

Raves are often chaotic, messy, and inscrutable. Not so much in Gisèle Vienne's Crowd, which dissects the life cycle of a rave with transfixing precision and visceral clarity. Having premiered in Strasbourg in 2017, Crowd receives its first UK production at Sadler's Wells, where it opens this year's Dance Umbrella Festival. A continuous soundscape of early 90's techno-trance music provides an electrifying stimulus to 15 performers who portray with admirable command the eponymous group of raving youth.



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