Monday, October 30, 2017
Brand-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 01:00PMThursday, October 26, 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 10:00AMA new baby is like an alien invasion: it blows your mind and it colonises your world. For any couple, parenthood can be both exalting and devastating, with the stress hugging the relationshi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
After DC Moore’s flawed Common comes Mullarkey’s similarly flawed Saint George and the Dragon. Taking the myth of George, the legendary dragon slayer and rescuer of damsels in distress, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 23, 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 08:00AMSunday, October 22, 2017
Albion begins with Audrey, played with indefatigable energy by Victoria Hamilton, in the garden of her deceased uncle’s family home, deep in the English countryside. She has bought the pro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
Text of the day: “Well, what’s happening is if you’re Northern, you’re getting butchered, it’s like Game of fucking Thrones.”
The post Labour of Love app…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, October 19, 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, October 16, 2017
New two-hander is a highly stylised account of a positively Ballardian reality: contemporary nihilism rules.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, October 11, 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 11:00AMAnne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham try their best in unconvincing rom-com, which is predictable and portentous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Some plays would now be completely forgotten if not for a scandal that makes them memorable. NC Hunter’s A Day by the Sea, first staged in 1953, is a good example. Today, its name is chief…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Classic 1953 play by the English Chekhov is fascinating, but rather dated in its values and too clumsy in its production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, October 7, 2017
B starts innocently enough with Marcela, a young woman, being comforted by Carmen, her older neighbour. Apparently, her boyfriend has been blown up by a terrorist bomb.
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 10:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
Comedy about Labour Party history is starry, but politically reactionary and tediously overblown.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Jane Eyre is one of those mythical stories that make their home in your imagination. Where they can chat, sing and dance through your unconscious for years and years and years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, October 1, 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 05:00AMThursday, September 28, 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 09:00AMHeartwarming debut play about young teen love is very good fun, if a bit slender and insubstantial.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Award-heavy American play about the Oslo Accords is informative, moving and highly entertaining.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 24, 2017
David Storey’s family celebration drama of 1989 is typically natural, subtle and poignant, but also retro
The post The March on Russia, Orange Tree Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Terry Johnson's new play is a deeply felt and typically witty look at the cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, September 17, 2017
Stage version of Jack Rosenthal’s classic 1979 film is well acted, although the staging is a little bit static.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHoward Brenton's latest takes a scalpel to the collapsing mind of playwright August Strindberg.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 15, 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 01:00PMTuesday, September 12, 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 01:00PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Powerful revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 modern classic comes alive in all its noisy, vulgar and transcendent glory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 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 09:00AMSaturday, September 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 08:00AM 
