Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Is this the most dazzling play of a dazzling playwright? First staged in 1974, Travesties is the one which manages to squeeze avant-garde novelist James Joyce, DaDa godfather Tristan Tzara a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PMMonday, October 3, 2016
New play from the National Youth Theatre is energetic and lively, but a bit unsettling in its portrayal of the poor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 2, 2016
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 05:30AMFriday, September 30, 2016
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 captive drama is well-written in a symbolic vein that helps to humanise the story behind the headlines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:18AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
History Boy Dominic Cooper triumphs as the Restoration rake Rochester in revival of 1994 biog drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:08AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Restoration theatre has the reputation of being a rake’s paradise – all those randy young aristos in hot pursuit of buxom wenches. But even in the depths of 17th-century playwriting, the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:55PMMonday, September 26, 2016
The metaphor of mountain climbing resonates with the crisis of masculinity in new sex-war drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:32AMFriday, September 23, 2016
At its best, theatre is great at putting resonant metaphors on stage. And, as Elinor Cook’s new play abundantly proves, the activity of mountain climbing seems very promising as a metaphor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:15PMTwo actors share the roles of scholar and tempter in a pacy production that brilliantly conveys joy in transgression.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:33AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:45AMThursday, September 22, 2016
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 09:46AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Revival of Pinter’s 1975 classic is a model of clarity, but raises questions about the validity of modernism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
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 05:05AMMonday, September 19, 2016
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 09:38AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Experimental family drama is very powerful, but its theatrical form is too complicated for its own good.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:46AMThursday, September 15, 2016
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 12:07PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
The family is a war zone. Bam, bam, bam. For some people, it can be the most dangerous place on earth. Its weapons include domination and betrayal, blackmail and abuse, and its frontline is …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00PMNew coming-of-age play is not only quirky and funny, but also moving and theatrically thrilling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:12AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
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 09:08AMMonday, September 12, 2016
We’re living in the age of the small play. Although there are plenty of baggy epics around on our stages, they are outnumbered by the small and short two-hander, whether it is John O’Don…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:58PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Drama about the 1970s and 1980s South American debt crisis is too long, too derivative and too predictable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:15PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Ever since Lucy Prebble’s hit masterpiece, Enron, opened our eyes to the possibilities of staging plays about global finance in a thrillingly theatrical way, the hunt has been on for anoth…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:16PMScottish Gogol adaptation is a thrillingly contemporary account of damaged masculinity and national identity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:25PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:12AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Alice Birch’s third-wave feminist roller-coaster from 2014 is both thrilling and messy (mostly in a good way).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:24AMFriday, September 2, 2016
Alice Birch is one of the most exciting playwrights to have arrived in the past five years. This restaging of the brilliantly titled Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. – which was first put o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:19PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:43AMNew two-hander about love and exploitation offers a powerful image of racism and injustice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AMThursday, September 1, 2016
New two-hander about petty criminal youth in Ireland packs a strong emotional punch amid its hilarity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:24PM 
