Monday, February 17, 2020
Last week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington's Tower Theatre, whose company has since 2018 been putting on a repertory program, which is inclusive and ambitious, on the outer r…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:04PM[SHARE]No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel Beckett. Yet it is surprising how rarely his work is revived in the big London theatres, of wh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]This well-focused revival of Caryl Churchill's, brief dystopic classic Far Away is vivid but frankly unexceptional.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
"Fetch me 'ammer." (Edward Bond, Saved) "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." (Bertolt Brecht) A couple of years ago, our family got a new puppy. It …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:42PM[SHARE]If neither newspapers nor intelligence services will lose sleep over the way Blyth represents them, The Haystack is insightful enough to be a contemporary state-of-the-nation parable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon by the state, or by some foreign country. It's a paranoid notion based on the huge growth of …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:15AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2020
Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble's provocative debut, first staged at the Royal Court in 2003, the metaphor of sugar, and of the po…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:19PM[SHARE]A new monologue about rage, racism and national identity, Death of England at the National Theatre is magnificent in its fury and perception.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2020
A star cast led by Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks make light work of the Beckett classic Endgame.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It's when you see a show that keeps making you exhale, sometimes audibly, sometimes quietly. Like…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:53PM[SHARE]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[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Do you hear the people sing? In recent months, you're more likely to have heard news stories about the longest running West End musical than the actual music. Stephen Sondheim " who celebrat…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]New touring play The Gift from Eclipse is a wonderfully complex and emotionally powerful account of race and Empire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2020
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to them. So a recent survey about how many Shakespeare quotations members of the general public…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:04PM[SHARE]Excellent revival of Lucy Prebble's disturbing debut play The Sugar Syndrome about loneliness, the internet and illegal desire.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]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 in…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:09PM[SHARE]The 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, S…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 gl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2020
New blood courses through the veins of the West End's longest-running musical Les Misérables.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, The …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:46AM[SHARE] 
