One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy amply prove, it’s easier to speculate abo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:38PMBlack comedy Sydney & The Old Girl is occasionally entertaining, but much too dark and dispiriting for its own good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMOn BearRidge, the first Ed Thomas play for 15 years, is a post-apocalyptic metaphor-fest which is tragic, lyrical and funny too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMJordan Tannahill’s queering of Renaissance art in Botticelli In The Fire is riotously vulgar and completely unapologetic mash up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMA terrific revival of Arinzé Kene’s 2011 coming-of-age drama Little Baby Jesus is mind-glowingly lyrical, energetic and wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSarah Rutherford’s new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWinner of this venue’s 2018 International Playwriting Award, Out Of Sorts is a movingly-written and deeply felt drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAlice Birch’s experimental new play [Blank] prioritises form over content and is at heart depressingly reactionary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSabrina Mahfouz’s feminist account of British imperialism in A History of Water in the Middle East is energetic and passionate but also turns out to be a very slender piece of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMephisto [A Rhapsody], a French meta-theatrical update of Klaus Mann’s classic novel, has some brilliant moments but lacks metaphorical force.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMBaby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, stand-up comedian Richard Gadd’s provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood, is darkly exciting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMRuby Thomas’ experimental debut play Either is an intriguing questioning of gender identity that retains an air of politeness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThis sharp and starry revival of Peter Nichols’ taboo-busting fantasia A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is pretty magnificent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCaryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. at the Royal Court is wonderfully bright and incisively perceptive.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMScrupulous revival of Black Chiffon, an almost forgotten psychological thriller about class and unconscious desire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThere’s excellent acting in Two Ladies, a play that tickles the senses and the intellect by playfully morphing from one genre to another.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNew Israeli play Amsterdam about the effect of the past on the present is an open text which owes much too much to Martin Crimp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTanika Gupta’s superb reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s modern classic A Doll’s House is both entertaining and deep.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNew docu-drama The King of Hell’s Palace about the Chinese blood-contamination scandal of 1990s is about corruption and cover-up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLucy Prebble’s latest tells the story of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in A Very Expensive Poison, but prefers buffoonery over analysis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Favourite stage direction: “There are two printed versions …
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