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Saturday, September 2, 2017

Text of the Day: Loot by Aleks Sierz

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
Thursday, August 31, 2017

LIONS & TIGERS – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by Aleks Sierz

Tanika Gupta explores an episode from her family history that is both highly relevant and humane.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Text of the Day: Knives in Hens by Aleks Sierz

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 10:00AM
Sunday, August 27, 2017

LOOT – Park Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Anniversary revival of Joe Orton’s black farce about money and death is a delight from start to finish.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Friday, August 25, 2017

Text of the Day: Against by Aleks Sierz

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

KNIVES IN HENS – Donmar Warehouse by Aleks Sierz

Star director Yael Farber's revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, but it lacks symbolic weight.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Text of the Day: Apologia by Aleks Sierz

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
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

THE MAJORITY – National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New play about participation and democracy is entertaining enough, but a bit too tricksy and too so-what-ish?

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Text of the Day: Touch by Aleks Sierz

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 12:00PM
Saturday, August 12, 2017

HAMLET – Harold Pinter Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Andrew Scott's interpretation of the Prince of Denmark is stylish, relevant and completely contemporary.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
Thursday, August 10, 2017

BORDERS IN A BEDROOM – Tristan Bates Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Directed by Celine Rosenthal, Borders in a Bedroom is a short and slender work, but the playwright shows great promise.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

APOLOGIA – West End by Aleks Sierz

The 1960s were “hilarious”, says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon Stockard Channing, of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 family drama at the Trafalgar Studios. How…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM
Monday, August 7, 2017

Text of the Day: Mosquitoes by Aleks Sierz

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
Friday, August 4, 2017

TOUCH – Soho Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Latest play from DryWrite's Vicky Jones provides a vivid picture of contemporary metropolitan womanhood.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

MOSQUITOES – National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Friday, July 28, 2017

Text of the Day: Common by Aleks Sierz

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
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Text of the Day: Hir by Aleks Sierz

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 10:00AM
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Text of the Day: Playwright Anders Lustgarten on hope by Aleks Sierz

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
Thursday, July 13, 2017

BODIES – Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New drama about surrogacy is rich in metaphor and fraught with conflict, but you have to ignore its politics.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Text of the Day: Terror by Aleks Sierz

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
Monday, July 10, 2017

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMERICAN SERVICE MEN IN BRITAIN – Jermyn Street Theatre by Aleks Sierz

We’re familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad’s Army, gamely tramping down the country lanes and across the verdant fields of southern England during the second world war. …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Text of the Day: The Handmaid’s Tale by Aleks Sierz

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 05:00AM
Thursday, June 29, 2017

INK – Almeida Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Graham tells the eye-opening story of how Murdoch bought the ailing Sun newspaper and turned it into Britain’s most popular tabloid by focusing on the tycoon’s relationship with Larry La…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Text of the Day: Gloria by Aleks Sierz

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 07:00AM
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

TERROR – Lyric Hammersmith by Aleks Sierz

Can the theatre be a courtroom? A good public place to debate morality and to arrive at profound decisions? You could answer this with a history lesson that ranges from the ancient Greeks to…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Saturday, June 24, 2017

GLORIA – Hampstead by Aleks Sierz

This play’s subject is alienation, at work and in the home. (But mainly at work.) In contemporary society, office work seems to symbolize a life of modern drudgery.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Text of the Day: Punts by Aleks Sierz

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 08:30AM

HIR – Bush Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Hir is set in a settlement somewhere in California’s Central Valley, where plywood houses have been built on landfill sites, and dozens lie empty, abandoned during an economic downturn. Al…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Text of the Day: Anatomy of a Suicide by Aleks Sierz

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 10:00AM
Monday, June 19, 2017

Text of the Day: Barber Shop Chronicles by Aleks Sierz

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
Saturday, June 17, 2017

VS. – The Yard Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Vs is a short but energizing piece of dance theatre. It’s fun, but it would be even more fun if it didn’t come clothed in the relentless hype that Goode and his admirers have created aro…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM