Sunday, September 24, 2017
David Storey’s family celebration drama of 1989 is typically natural, subtle and poignant, but also retro
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Terry Johnson's new play is a deeply felt and typically witty look at the cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, September 17, 2017
Stage version of Jack Rosenthal’s classic 1979 film is well acted, although the staging is a little bit static.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHoward Brenton's latest takes a scalpel to the collapsing mind of playwright August Strindberg.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Powerful revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 modern classic comes alive in all its noisy, vulgar and transcendent glory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 2, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 31, 2017
Tanika Gupta explores an episode from her family history that is both highly relevant and humane.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, August 27, 2017
Anniversary revival of Joe Orton’s black farce about money and death is a delight from start to finish.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMStar director Yael Farber's revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, but it lacks symbolic weight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 17, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
New play about participation and democracy is entertaining enough, but a bit too tricksy and too so-what-ish?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, August 12, 2017
Andrew Scott's interpretation of the Prince of Denmark is stylish, relevant and completely contemporary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Directed by Celine Rosenthal, Borders in a Bedroom is a short and slender work, but the playwright shows great promise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
The 1960s were “hilarious”, says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon Stockard Channing, of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 family drama at the Trafalgar Studios. How…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Latest play from DryWrite's Vicky Jones provides a vivid picture of contemporary metropolitan womanhood.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, July 13, 2017
New drama about surrogacy is rich in metaphor and fraught with conflict, but you have to ignore its politics.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, July 10, 2017
We’re familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad’s Army, gamely tramping down the country lanes and across the verdant fields of southern England during the second world war. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 29, 2017
Graham tells the eye-opening story of how Murdoch bought the ailing Sun newspaper and turned it into Britain’s most popular tabloid by focusing on the tycoon’s relationship with Larry La…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM 
