Wednesday, October 24, 2018
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 10:00AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Ken Urban’s intense and revelatory two-hander is powerfully performed by Clifford Samuel and Douglas Booth. Whatever you compare it with, A Guide for the Homesick thrills both the nerve en…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 20, 2018
At the National Theatre, Stories – Nina Raine’s follow-up to her very big hit Consent – is emotionally intelligent and often funny but rarely deep.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 18, 2018
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 11:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Is there such a thing as sheer theatrical joy? Yes, there is, and it comes from an unexpected source: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of Twelfth Night at the Young Vi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
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 11:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
David Hare’s latest play I’m Not Running at the National Theatre is set in an alternative reality that is more 2008 than 2018 and says nothing about Labour’s current malaise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
Victorian female pugilism drama: thoroughly heartfelt, highly original, very theatrical and completely timely
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:01AMSunday, October 7, 2018
This intelligent and sensitive adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs Dalloway at the Arcola Theatre is a good example of current fringe creativity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 4, 2018
The Cold War surveillance drama Pack of Lies is interesting enough, but its old-fashioned qualities are not an unmixed blessing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Brad Birch’s excellent 70-minute monologue A Kettle of Fish about a female professional and her response to a critical convergence of problems.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
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 11:00AMFriday, September 28, 2018
A semi-autobiographical coming of age story, Poet in da Corner at the Royal Court raps and jumps to the sounds of grime.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Unsuccessful West End outing for Dawn King’s intriguing and evocative 2011 dystopian chiller.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
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 11:00AMSunday, September 23, 2018
Now at last my prayer has been answered. Deafinitely Theatre currently brings a bilingual approach to 4.48 Psychosis – spoken English and British Sign Language — to the play, using an al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Losing Venice at the Orange Tree Theatre is a remarkable rediscovery by this ever-enterprising venue and is a well-crafted and elegantly written curiosity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 20, 2018
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 11:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
For his last show at the Bush, Madani Younis has chosen a project close to his heart, Vinay Patel’s An Adventure, an epic reading of one Asian family’s global migration story.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 17, 2018
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 11:00AMSunday, September 16, 2018
An overwhelmingly powerful new play about motherhood and psychological collapse: Lesley Sharp amazes in The Woods at the Royal Court Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 14, 2018
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 09:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Coyly advertised as Holy Sh!t, actor and writer Alexis Zegerman’s new play is a topical account of the lengths that some parents will go to get their kids into the best local schools.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Alison Carr’s Caterpillar, a finalist in the Theatre 503’s Playwriting Award, gets an excellent staging and will later tour to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, September 9, 2018
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 12:00PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
It is a fitting moment to watch Oladipo Agboluaje’s New Nigerians, which was first staged at this Off-West End venue in February 2017, and now returns — and I’m happy to say that it’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, September 7, 2018
Atiha Sen Gupta’s Abi, a 60-minute monologue, performed with enormous zest and attractive energy by Safiyya Ingar, is a response to Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party and looks at what …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, August 30, 2018
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 10:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
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 08:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
Laura Wades’s return to the stage is a bright satire about marriage and nostalgic fantasy
The post Home, I’m Darling, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
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