Michael Billington on 13 and The Faith Machine
Not everyone liked 13 and The Faith Machine " but if drama isn't for airing big ideas, then what is it for?What does a critic do when he finds himself out of step with majority opinion? I ask because it's happened to me quite a lot lately. My enthusiasm for Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National was met with a cascade of abuse from people on the comment thread under my review telling me I was talking rubbish. M…