Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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 02:00PMThe idea of the perfect murder is a genre standard. The fantasy that you are so intellectually gifted that you could use a supremely clever scheme to bump off an enemy, or make a fortune, is…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:14AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Once radical theatre companies are increasingly celebrating anniversaries, as if to say, hey, look, we’re still here. Now it’s the turn of Frantic Assembly to mark its 25th anniversary w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:18PMSunday, March 1, 2020
In the era of Brexit, and the government’s new immigration proposals, Tim Cowbury’s The Claim feels suddenly even more relevant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, February 27, 2020
Caryl Churchill, Britain’s best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of her classic work. Last year, the National Theatre staged her Top Girls, and an upcoming p…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:55PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you’re a political refugee, and, having experienced horrible things that happened to your family, you finally, after a lot of trouble, arr…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:16AMDespite its absurdist style, Pass Over is a political play whose message is indisputable. The evening is a powerful mixture of male camaraderie, brutality and almost casual defiance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, February 23, 2020
If the intimate play A Number feels a bit lost in the vast space of the Bridge, the performances are big enough to give it the required punch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Genetic engineering is in the news again. This follows the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as special advisor to Boris Johnson after a twitter storm about his comments on race and intelligence…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:19PMThursday, February 20, 2020
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 11:00AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth knowing about the past, that foreign country where they do things differently, and also something …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:45PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Last week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington’s Tower Theatre, whose company has since 2018 been putting on a repertory program, which is inclusive and ambitious, on the outer r…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:04PMNo playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel Beckett. Yet it is surprising how rarely his work is revived in the big London theatres, of wh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:39AMFriday, February 14, 2020
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 11:00AMThis well-focused revival of Caryl Churchill’s, brief dystopic classic Far Away is vivid but frankly unexceptional.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 13, 2020
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” (Bertolt Brecht) A couple of years ago, our family got a new …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:42PMIf neither newspapers nor intelligence services will lose sleep over the way Blyth represents them, The Haystack is insightful enough to be a contemporary state-of-the-nation parable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon by the state, or by some foreign country. It’s a paranoid notion based on the huge growth o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:15AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble’s provocative debut, first staged at the Royal Court in 2003, the metaphor of sugar, and of the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:19PMA new monologue about rage, racism and national identity, Death of England at the National Theatre is magnificent in its fury and perception.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, February 8, 2020
A star cast led by Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks make light work of the Beckett classic Endgame.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, February 7, 2020
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 11:00AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It’s when you see a show that keeps making you exhale, sometimes audibly, sometimes quietly. Li…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:53PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Do you hear the people sing? In recent months, you’re more likely to have heard news stories about the longest running West End musical than the actual music. Stephen Sondheim — who cele…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:54PMNew touring play The Gift from Eclipse is a wonderfully complex and emotionally powerful account of race and Empire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 3, 2020
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 01:00PMSaturday, February 1, 2020
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to them. So a recent survey about how many Shakespeare quotations members of the general public…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:04PMExcellent revival of Lucy Prebble’s disturbing debut play The Sugar Syndrome about loneliness, the internet and illegal desire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s, the country’s colonial history dominated the national mindset, and arguably we still live …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:29PM 
