Tuesday, 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 06:45PMMonday, January 18, 2016
Trio of monologues about suicidal masculinity roars its way through the theatre and burrows deep inside your mind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AMSaturday, January 16, 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 04:30AMFriday, January 15, 2016
You have to admire Rob Hayes’s choice of titles. Although his latest doesn’t quite have the shock value of Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve Fucked, his 2014 Edinburgh Festival h…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:14PMWednesday, January 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 09:03AMMonday, January 11, 2016
The best theatre is controversial theatre, but some controversies just make you want to weep. Out of Joint theatre company has been touring Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Jane Wenham: The Witch of W…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:53PMSunday, January 10, 2016
Does Neil McPherson, artistic director of this fringe venue, have a direct line to the North Korean capital? In an uncanny coincidence he is opening In-Sook Chappell’s new play about every…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AMThursday, January 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 11:19AMTuesday, January 5, 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 09:38AMSunday, January 3, 2016
Latest short from the fab Caryl Churchill is a surprisingly intense and uncomfortable play about death, reviewed on the last night of its short season at the National's Lyttelton Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:24AMSaturday, January 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 04:38AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
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 04:55AMSunday, December 27, 2015
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 06:38AMThursday, December 24, 2015
Christopher Hampton's great adaptation of this 18th-century classic triumphs, despite a poor performance from Dominic West.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Latest play by Wallace Shawn stars the playwright and is brilliantly satirical, but not much fun as an experience
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Latest thriller from the Hampstead Theatre sees a reunion of two female childhood friends turn nasty, oh very nasty
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:32AMSaturday, December 19, 2015
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 09:08AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Because of the instability of the present there’s always a faint whiff of nostalgia for the old certainties of the past. And the Cold War era has its very own allure. This can be seen in t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Past wrongs cast long shadows. Following the passing of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act, successive Australian governments favoured migrants from English-speaking countries in what was …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMMonday, December 14, 2015
Past wrongs cast long shadows. Following the passing of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act, successive Australian governments favoured migrants from English-speaking countries in what was …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:52PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:12AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Damon Albarn’s Alice in Wonderland musical has fun graphics, but a banal and didactic storyline — and poor tunes
The post wonder.land, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AMFriday, December 11, 2015
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 05:27AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Widely hyped as “an Alice for the online generation”, and “a coming-of-age adventure that explores the blurred boundaries between our online and offline lives”, this version of Lewis…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:51PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Last week, I trekked down to the Orange Tree Theatre to see the recast revival of Deborah Bruce’s The Distance, which had first been staged there in October 2014.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:43AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
North Korea is the kind of place that haunts the imagination of the West – and not in a good way. One of the last hardline Communist dictatorships, it is also a country of immense sadness,…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:27PMMonday, December 7, 2015
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 05:52AMFriday, December 4, 2015
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 04:59AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
New play about a self-made career woman is well acted, but rather predictable and banal in its writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:50AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:29AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Don’t you just love celebrity hype? Kim Cattrall’s name alone sold out this show, which runs over the notoriously difficult Christmas period. But sometimes star casting backfires, and wh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:57PM 
