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Michael William Sven Coveney (born London 24 July 1948) is a British theatre critic. He was educated at St Ignatius’ College Stamford Hill and Worcester College Oxford.After graduation he worked as a script reader for the Royal Court Theatre and from 1972 he contributed theatre reviews to the Financial Times. He was deputy editor (1973–75) and editor (1975-78) of Plays and Players magazine and theatre critic and deputy arts editor of the Financial Times throughout the 1980s.