Tuesday, December 19, 2017
George Bernard Shaw was a theatrical superman. A critical attack dog as well as a creator of problem plays both pleasant and unpleasant, he invented the drama of ideas.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 14, 2017
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 05:00AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
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 12:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Kat is a young wife and mother, and Fritz tells her story in three episodes. The first, called Fifteen Seconds, shows her deciding to skip off work and, instead, board a train for London whe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMMonday, December 11, 2017
This spirited, age-blind revival at the Park Theatre of Denise Deegan's 1983 girls' boarding school classic is a bit too boisterous for its own good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, December 9, 2017
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 06:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
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 06:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Go goats! New play about truth and lies in the Syrian conflict is upstaged by its animal performers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 30, 2017
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 09:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
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 09:00AMSet in the 1580s, the play shows how Walsingham’s defense of Elizabeth from Catholic plots and assassination attempts results in hunting down the Jesuit missionary Robert Southwell, the re…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, November 26, 2017
It is one of the strengths of Ukrainian playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s savage war play, Bad Roads, translated by Sasha Dugdale and part of the Royal Court’s autumn international seaso…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 24, 2017
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 09:00AMMonday, November 20, 2017
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 12:00PMDavid Greig's triumphant version of Aeschylus arrives in London trailing banners of glory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Continental drama, in this era of Brexit negotiations, seems to be rarer and rarer on British stages. But, luckily, there are some venues which buck this parochial trend.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, November 16, 2017
From its haunting title, to its moments of explosive dialogue, this is a modern classic, which when it was first staged won Mamet the Pulitzer Prize. Set in Chicago, it shows a group of slic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
It’s about three in the morning on a Saturday night in the living room of a one-bedroom flat in Crouch End. Laura is a 38-year-old managing director, and it’s the tail end of her housewa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, November 12, 2017
Set entirely in a one-roomed hut in the Scottish Highlands, The Retreat tells the story of thirtysomething Luke, who has quit his high-powered City job to become a Buddhist. But just as he i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, November 9, 2017
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, November 7, 2017
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 01:00PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Small is beautiful. And that is because two-handers can sometimes reach parts that other, bigger, plays fail to touch. This is certainly the case with Stewart Pringle’s Trestle.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
Harry Potter satire burns bright — new play about storytelling examines a children’s book craze.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Slaves of Solitude is set in the winter of 1943. We are in the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, in Henley-on-Thames.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 3, 2017
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 08:00AMThursday, November 2, 2017
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 02:00PMMonday, October 30, 2017
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 01:00PMBrand-new London theatre from the two Nicks is wonderful, but its first show is disappointing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 27, 2017
This site-specific version is a bit of a gimmick, and while one part of me yearns for the play to be allowed to speak for itself, another just relishes the novelty of this revival’s settin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM 
