Friday, 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 08:29PMWednesday, January 29, 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 11:00AMMonday, January 27, 2020
Maxine Peake struggles to make the voice of reason heard in the rather reactionary feminist history play The Welkin at the National Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, January 25, 2020
Scenes with Girls at the Royal Court is like an exciting blast of fresh air blowing through the often stale world of contemporary new writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, January 24, 2020
A new play about optimism, You Stupid Darkness! is compassionate in conception, but repetitive and frustrating in performance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 23, 2020
The prolific Mike Bartlett — from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor Foster and Press, as well as stage hits such as King Charles III — has two things to celebrate …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:09PMThe 1990s were a great decade for new writing, but although the story of those years is often told as the rise and rise of in-yer-face playwrights — such as Philip Ridley, Anthony Neilson,…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:12AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Turn on the news. Go on. No? Okay, switch on the radio. Why not? Oh, I see, because the news is always bad. Yeah, I know what you mean. All those stories about how we’re doomed because of …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AMTuesday, January 21, 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, January 18, 2020
New blood courses through the veins of the West End’s longest-running musical Les Misérables.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 16, 2020
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That is, until you read Alan Burdick’s elegant program note to Alexandra Wood’s latest play, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:40AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
The pleasures of The Girl with Glitter in Her Eye — its acting, music and shadow images especially — do make up for some of the banality of the writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC’s His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac he is ta…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:46AMSaturday, January 11, 2020
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void has apparently sold mo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:43PMThe trouble with prejudice is that you can’t control how other people see you. At the start of her career, playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s work was set in her own Sikh community. But, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:27AMThursday, January 9, 2020
Media hysteria needs good branding. So when in March 2014 an email letter was leaked to the press, claiming to be by Islamist extremists and detailing how to take control of several Birmingh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:47PMRandom 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, January 7, 2020
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and dearest, can they also say something about the wider society? The Arrival, by the director, tu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56AMMonday, January 6, 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 11:00AMSunday, January 5, 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 11:00AMSaturday, January 4, 2020
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at the Park Theatre is a lively revival of Charlotte Jones’ quirky and hugely enjoyable 1999 play about parenting and life on immoral earnings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, January 2, 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 11:00AMMonday, December 30, 2019
Mike Bartlett’s Christmas cracker Snowflake goes out with a bang, but it really takes a long and clumsy time to do it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 21, 2019
Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade. Yet most members of the public will know her, and her actor husband Tom Penn, as the neighbor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, December 15, 2019
The family tragedy at the heart of A Kind Of People is emotionally powerful but also oddly incomplete and unsatisfying.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, December 12, 2019
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 01:00PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
James McAvoy triumphs in Martin Crimp’s magnificent makeover of the French classic Cyrano de Bergerac: a jaw-dropping success.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer, an intriguing documentary drama about the chess match of the century, gets bogged down in its final half hour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:57AMFriday, December 6, 2019
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 01:00PM 
