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]Saturday, January 11, 2020
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson's Touching the Void has apparently sold more…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:43PM[SHARE]The trouble with prejudice is that you can't control how other people see you. At the start of her career, playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's work was set in her own Sikh community. But, like…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
Media hysteria needs good branding. So when in March 2014 an email letter was leaked to the press, claiming to be by Islamist extremists and detailing how to take control of several Birmingh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:47PM[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, January 7, 2020
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and dearest, can they also say something about the wider society? The Arrival, by the director, tu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:56AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 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]Sunday, January 5, 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]Saturday, January 4, 2020
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at the Park Theatre is a lively revival of Charlotte Jones' quirky and hugely enjoyable 1999 play about parenting and life on immoral earnings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 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, December 30, 2019
Mike Bartlett's Christmas cracker Snowflake goes out with a bang, but it really takes a long and clumsy time to do it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 21, 2019
Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade. Yet most members of the public will know her, and her actor husband Tom Penn, as the neighbor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:34PM[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 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
The family tragedy at the heart of A Kind Of People is emotionally powerful but also oddly incomplete and unsatisfying.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2019
James McAvoy triumphs in Martin Crimp's magnificent makeover of the French classic Cyrano de Bergerac: a jaw-dropping success.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer, an intriguing documentary drama about the chess match of the century, gets bogged down in its final half hour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2019
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as we…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:57AM[SHARE]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 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 its par…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 and d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 D…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:23AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:35AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 di…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE] 
