Sunday, May 29, 2016
A short evening of satirical swipes at politicians, plotters and prophets is only fitfully funny and occasionally sharp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Is there any point to political satire? The great thing about the glory years of this genre in, say, the early 1960s was that the jokes punctured people’s deepest held beliefs in a deferen…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:54AMMonday, May 23, 2016
As I sit down to write this, a crow is cawing outside my window while night falls; for an awkard moment I think it might be a raven, and this reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Is the black bird…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:58PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Ace! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superbly staged and brilliantly performed... Each exchange is like a duel, and each duel is humorous as well a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMThursday, May 19, 2016
Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange is one of the best plays of the past two decades. First staged at the National Theatre in 2000, with the dream cast of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln and Bill N…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PMScreaming Lord Sutch biog-play is raucously entertaining, but rather superficial and thin on content.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:22AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Fact of the day: London staged 22 per cent of all theatre shows in England in 2014, up from 19 per cent in 2013.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
The sense of humour is a funny thing. It raises questions about whether what we find funny can tells us anything about who we are, or what we might become. The case of Screaming Lord Sutch, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:30AMSaturday, May 14, 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 06:20AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Rare anniversary revival of Heathcote Williams’s 1966 short is very powerful, if a bit too shouty in parts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:11AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36AMMonday, May 9, 2016
Howard Brenton’s new study of desert warrior T E Lawrence is more like a frustrating mirage than a nourishing oasis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, May 6, 2016
There’s something endlessly fascinating about T E Lawrence. In popular culture, he has been immortalised by Peter O’Toole’s dazzlingly blue-eyed performance in David Lean’s Lawrence …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PMClassic adaptation of the Graham Greene story is warm-hearted and entertaining, but also stuck in the past.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMThursday, May 5, 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 09:28AMTuesday, May 3, 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 02:00PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Here's the Quote of the month...The post Bill Bryson on Shake…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:16AMFriday, April 29, 2016
New one from Nick Payne explores brain science and female relationships, but is just a bit too superficial.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:23AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Playwright Nick Payne has carved out a distinctive dramatic territory – neuroscience. In his big 2012 hit, Constellations, he explored the effect on memory of living with a brain tumour, w…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PMOne man’s psychological problems make for a powerful thriller that digs deep into our current anxieties.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:06AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Game of Thrones celebrity casting can’t save a misconceived, vulgarly populist updating of this Renaissance classic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20AMMonday, April 25, 2016
New play about a lost teenage youth has an impressive production, but is thin on plot and character.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:48AMNew play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:49AMThursday, April 21, 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 12:04PMAlistair McDowall’s follow up to his big 2014 hit Pomona is less dazzling, but more emotionally desolate and ambiguous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Spirited revival of the 1980s feminist classic is a bit too shrill, yet also quietly moving when it matters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMMonday, April 18, 2016
Charlotte Keatley’s 1987 feminist classic is one of the most often performed plays by a woman writer. It is typical of its time in that this story of four generations of women in one famil…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12PM 
