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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Text of the Day: Low Level Panic 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

KILLER – Shoreditch Town Hall by Aleks Sierz

Latest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Saturday, February 25, 2017

TEXT OF THE DAY: The Pitchfork Disney 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
Thursday, February 23, 2017

LOW LEVEL PANIC – Orange Tree Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 10:00AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

TEXT OF THE DAY: A Clockwork Orange 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

SEE ME NOW – Young Vic by Aleks Sierz

Verbatim 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 06:00AM
Sunday, February 19, 2017

TEXT OF THE DAY – Run the Beast Down 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 06:00AM
Saturday, February 18, 2017

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – Park Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Text of the Day: Dubailand 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
Friday, February 10, 2017

DUBAILAND – Finborough Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 09:00AM
Thursday, February 9, 2017

RUN THE BEAST DOWN – Finborough Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 02:00PM

Text of the Day: Years of Sunlight 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
Monday, February 6, 2017

Text of the Day: Sex with Strangers 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 11:30AM

THE PITCHFORK DISNEY – Shoreditch Town Hall by Aleks Sierz

Jamie Lloyd tackles Philip Ridley’s 1991 modern classic — with terrifically immersive results.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AM

SEX WITH STRANGERS – Hampstead Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM
Thursday, February 2, 2017

YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503 by Aleks Sierz

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 06:00AM
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Text of the Day: Us/Them 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

YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503 by Aleks Sierz

New play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AM
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY – Arts Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 12:00PM

THE LOWER DEPTHS – Arcola Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The 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 05:30AM
Friday, January 27, 2017

Text of the Day: Winter Solstice 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, January 26, 2017

DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY – West End by Aleks Sierz

OMG! The much-revived hit rom-com show is LOL funny, but also a bit thin content-wise.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:31PM

THE LOWER DEPTHS – Arcola Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The 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 08:00AM
Monday, January 23, 2017

US/THEM – National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00AM

Text of the Day: Wish List 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
Sunday, January 22, 2017

WINTER SOLSTICE – Orange Tree Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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 06:00AM
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Text of the Day: Harold Pinter on meaning 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
Saturday, January 14, 2017

WISH LIST – Royal Court by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00AM
Friday, January 13, 2017

WISH LIST – Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New play about casual work and disability is a thinly written Corbynesque drama.

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

Text of the Day: Art 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 06:00AM
Thursday, January 5, 2017

ART – Old Vic Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Twentieth anniversary revival of Yasmina Reza’s contemporary classic is well acted, but conservative.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM