Friday, 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 01:00PMThursday, December 5, 2019
I wanted to love this Midnight Movie, but — like almost any screen experience — I couldn’t quite connect with it. Despite some disturbing passages, it feels like less than the sum of i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 3, 2019
Originally produced in association with Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, director Raz Shaw’s production of The Greatest Play in the History of the World is one of the most charming a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 2, 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 11:00AMSunday, December 1, 2019
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by all, and the worst, being boringly unimaginative and frankly banal. The hegemony of this aesth…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AMSaturday, November 30, 2019
Some news stories have a very long half-life. Their power to shock does not diminish; they continue to radiate pain. One such is the gang rape and murder that happened in South Delhi in Dec…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:23AMFriday, November 29, 2019
Director Bijan Sheibani turns playwright in a fine two-hander about family and the crisis of masculinity in The Arrival at the Bush Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 28, 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 11:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian specialist starred in high-profile shows both here and in Australia, a country whose citizenship she took up in 2013, but…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:54PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
#WeAreArrested, a new RSC adaptation of Turkish editor Can Dündar’s prison memoir, is beautifully written and simply staged.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing the messenger seems to be an accepted way of falsifying the facts—and this applies to any…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:35AMFriday, November 22, 2019
South America’s trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase: The Disappeared. Whether in Argentina or Chile or anywhere else, the victims of military …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:14AMThursday, November 21, 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 11:00AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
David Greig's much-lauded mountaineering survival story fails to reach the dizzy heights.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 19, 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 11:00AMMonday, November 18, 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 11:00AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
This touring production of Trojan Horse, a verbatim theatre piece about the Birmingham schools scandal, is absorbingly polemical and moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 15, 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 01:00PMThursday, November 14, 2019
Believe in ideas? David Baddiel’s new play God’s Dice stars Alan Davies as a scientist drawn to religion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 13, 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 11:00AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Caridad Svich’s excellent adaptation of Isabel Allende’s 1982 modern classic The House of the Spirits is an epic and emotional evocation of South American history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
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 09:00AMFriday, November 8, 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 01:00PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
On 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 09:00AMMonday, November 4, 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 01:00PMThursday, October 31, 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 02:00PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Jordan Tannahill’s queering of Renaissance art in Botticelli In The Fire is riotously vulgar and completely unapologetic mash up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSunday, October 27, 2019
A 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 08:00AMSaturday, October 26, 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 09:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
Sarah Rutherford’s new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM 
