Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Love, we know, will tear us apart again. And again. And yet again. It will shred our nerves and rip through our guts; it will fill us with anguish, and then douse us in regrets.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, March 5, 2017
Theatre increasingly uses digital delights to enhance audience enjoyment. And you can easily see why.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Despite this, and the freezing temperature of the venue, the Styx, I was struck by how well the work has endured, and how recent global disasters (Syria, Brexit, the refugee crisis) have onl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he came at theatre from leftfield. In the 1980s, he didn’t go to drama school — he went to ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, February 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 01:00PMLatest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 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 10:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
The late Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic has a great title for a 1980s feminist drama. In three words she presents the emotional landscape of her play: uncertain, edgy, angsty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, February 22, 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 11:00AMVerbatim theatre always raises theatrical and ethical issues. The use of the words spoken by real-life, as opposed to fictional, people always argues in favour of authenticity (which is not …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 19, 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 06:00AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMThursday, February 16, 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 09:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Set in Dubai, the glowing capital city of the United Arab Emirates, it tells two parallel stories: one is the conflict between two English twentysomethings, Jamie and Clara, who travel to th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Run the Beast Down, which runs in rep with Carmen Nasr’s Dubailand. Run the Beast Down is a solo show in which actor Ben Aldridge performs a 90-minute monologue about Charlie, a young man …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 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 11:30AMJamie Lloyd tackles Philip Ridley’s 1991 modern classic — with terrifically immersive results.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AMNew American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMThursday, February 2, 2017
The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 1, 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 11:00AMNew play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
The characters are instantly familiar: Richard is a bit gauche, a bit geeky, a bit immature; Katie is sassy, strong-minded, but still obsessed with You Know Who, an ex who treated her badly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe enterprising Arcola Theatre in East London has chosen to start its Revolution Season with a revival of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths (1902), which has opened a couple of months short …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, January 27, 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, January 26, 2017
OMG! The much-revived hit rom-com show is LOL funny, but also a bit thin content-wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:31PMThe Lower Depths is a rarely performed large-cast play that offers a panorama of poverty in the last years of Tsarist Russia. Its portrait of human degradation in a doss-house somewhere on t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 23, 2017
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic or too matter-of-factly journalistic? Maybe an oblique approach is the answer.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an electric charge. For Leavers, they represent the evil empire; for Remainers, a world we h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, January 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 11:00AM 
