Saturday, February 20, 2016
Irish stage adaptation of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel is powerfully emotional and stunningly performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMFriday, February 19, 2016
Eimear McBride’s debut novel, the provocatively titled A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, won the first Goldsmiths Prize in 2013, as well as the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction a year late…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:01AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Actor and director Simon McBurney’s one-man show has arrived in London after gathering plaudits in Edinburgh and elsewhere last year – before setting off again on a nationwide and Europe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:15PMMonday, February 15, 2016
Gemma Arterton shines wonderfully in West End outing for jolly, if rather superficial, Restoration romp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:57AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:14AMSaturday, February 13, 2016
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 05:13AMFriday, February 12, 2016
As a subject for drama, theatre history is always popular in the West End. Between Mr Foote’s Other Leg, which has recently closed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Mrs Henderson Present…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:17PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:27AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Peter Brook revisits The Mahabharata with more philosophy than politics, and with a perfection that ultimately feels chilly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, February 7, 2016
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 02:40PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Legendary director Peter Brook makes theatre that teaches audiences to be human. Now 90 years old, he brings his latest project to London from Paris, where he has been based at the Bouffes d…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:43PMNew Welsh monologue focuses on the sacrifices demanded from its young female heroine, but what are its politics?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Quote of the day: “What I have in mind is not a forced topicality, a Hamlet that would be set in a cellar of young existentialists.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:06AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
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 08:56AMMonday, February 1, 2016
Verse play about British soldiers returning from Afghanistan is harrowing and moving, but perhaps a touch too polished.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AMSaturday, January 30, 2016
New Caryl Churchill play returns to the fantasy world of Churchillia, where banality is totally invaded by horror.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:37AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Quote of the day: “Many have tried to deify Shakespeare.”
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:26AMThursday, January 28, 2016
Caryl Churchill is a phenomenon. Now 77 years old, she remains not only prolific but also immensely inventive, having notched up more than 35 original plays, many of which have been innovati…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:50PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Text of the day: I was thinking about Ross, Adele, and Bergsie.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AMPowerful play about brothers comes storming into Sloane Square from Manchester, trailing tenderness and terror.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:35AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
The war in Afghanistan has not exactly been neglected by contemporary British theatre, and the plight of returned soldiers is a standard trope of new writing. These distant wars function in …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:28PMMonday, January 25, 2016
Feral kids are a media stereotype, but they make good strong subjects for drama. In Anna Jordan’s new play, which was first seen at the Manchester Royal Exchange last year after winning th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:46PMNew play about internet porn is both an entertaining fable and a disturbing vision of corruption.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:18AMSunday, January 24, 2016
Award-winning American actor and playwright Eric Bogosian has gone mammoth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMSaturday, January 23, 2016
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 09:31AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Unmoving revival of Simon Stephens' teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth to trendy directorial gimmicks.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNew drama about traumatic amnesia is based on a good idea, but is just too bland to stay long in the memory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:01AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Be careful what you wish for. I’ve always moaned about the fact that British theatre is too naturalistic, and that its stagings are too banal, full of quotidian detail and a specific sense…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
It is a nightmare scenario: you have an accident that leaves you comatose. You are out of action in hospital for three weeks and then, when you wake up, you gradually realise that you don’…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:45PM 
