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]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
David Greig's much-lauded mountaineering survival story fails to reach the dizzy heights.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 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]Monday, November 18, 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]Saturday, November 16, 2019
This touring production of Trojan Horse, a verbatim theatre piece about the Birmingham schools scandal, is absorbingly polemical and moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 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, November 14, 2019
Believe in ideas? David Baddiel's new play God's Dice stars Alan Davies as a scientist drawn to religion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 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]Monday, November 11, 2019
Caridad Svich's excellent adaptation of Isabel Allende's 1982 modern classic The House of the Spirits is an epic and emotional evocation of South American history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2019
One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy amply prove, it's easier to speculate about t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Black comedy Sydney & The Old Girl is occasionally entertaining, but much too dark and dispiriting for its own good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 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]Tuesday, November 5, 2019
On BearRidge, the first Ed Thomas play for 15 years, is a post-apocalyptic metaphor-fest which is tragic, lyrical and funny too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 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, October 31, 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
Jordan Tannahill's queering of Renaissance art in Botticelli In The Fire is riotously vulgar and completely unapologetic mash up.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2019
A terrific revival of Arinzé Kene's 2011 coming-of-age drama Little Baby Jesus is mind-glowingly lyrical, energetic and wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2019
Sarah Rutherford's new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Winner of this venue's 2018 International Playwriting Award, Out Of Sorts is a movingly-written and deeply felt drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 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]Monday, October 21, 2019
Alice Birch's experimental new play [Blank] prioritises form over content and is at heart depressingly reactionary.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
Sabrina Mahfouz's feminist account of British imperialism in A History of Water in the Middle East is energetic and passionate but also turns out to be a very slender piece of theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Mephisto [A Rhapsody], a French meta-theatrical update of Klaus Mann's classic novel, has some brilliant moments but lacks metaphorical force.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Baby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, stand-up comedian Richard Gadd's provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood, is darkly exciting.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 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, October 10, 2019
Ruby Thomas' experimental debut play Either is an intriguing questioning of gender identity that retains an air of politeness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 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]Monday, October 7, 2019
This sharp and starry revival of Peter Nichols' taboo-busting fantasia A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is pretty magnificent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
Caryl Churchill's Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. at the Royal Court is wonderfully bright and incisively perceptive.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
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