Tuesday, February 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 01:00PMLatest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 25, 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 10:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
The late Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic has a great title for a 1980s feminist drama. In three words she presents the emotional landscape of her play: uncertain, edgy, angsty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, February 22, 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 11:00AMVerbatim theatre always raises theatrical and ethical issues. The use of the words spoken by real-life, as opposed to fictional, people always argues in favour of authenticity (which is not …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 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 06:00AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMThursday, February 16, 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 09:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Set in Dubai, the glowing capital city of the United Arab Emirates, it tells two parallel stories: one is the conflict between two English twentysomethings, Jamie and Clara, who travel to th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Run the Beast Down, which runs in rep with Carmen Nasr’s Dubailand. Run the Beast Down is a solo show in which actor Ben Aldridge performs a 90-minute monologue about Charlie, a young man …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, February 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 11:30AMJamie Lloyd tackles Philip Ridley’s 1991 modern classic — with terrifically immersive results.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AMNew American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMThursday, February 2, 2017
The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 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 11:00AMNew play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
The characters are instantly familiar: Richard is a bit gauche, a bit geeky, a bit immature; Katie is sassy, strong-minded, but still obsessed with You Know Who, an ex who treated her badly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe enterprising Arcola Theatre in East London has chosen to start its Revolution Season with a revival of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths (1902), which has opened a couple of months short …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, January 27, 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, January 26, 2017
OMG! The much-revived hit rom-com show is LOL funny, but also a bit thin content-wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:31PMThe Lower Depths is a rarely performed large-cast play that offers a panorama of poverty in the last years of Tsarist Russia. Its portrait of human degradation in a doss-house somewhere on t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 23, 2017
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic or too matter-of-factly journalistic? Maybe an oblique approach is the answer.
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 05:00AMSunday, January 22, 2017
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an electric charge. For Leavers, they represent the evil empire; for Remainers, a world we h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, January 18, 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 11:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
You could call it the Corbynisation of new writing. In the past couple of years, a series of plays have plumbed the lower depths, looking at the subject of good people trapped in zero-hour c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 13, 2017
New play about casual work and disability is a thinly written Corbynesque drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 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 06:00AMThursday, January 5, 2017
Twentieth anniversary revival of Yasmina Reza’s contemporary classic is well acted, but conservative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM 
