Monday, 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 06:12PMSunday, April 17, 2016
New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:01AMFriday, April 15, 2016
Why do young British Muslims go to join the so-called Islamic State? Since the entire media has been grappling with this question for ages now, it is a bit puzzling to see our flagship Natio…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:14PMAtmospheric revival of Harold Pinter’s psychological drama is too long and too elaborate to be genuinely moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PMThursday, April 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 12:08PMTuesday, April 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 06:29AMThursday, March 31, 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 08:53AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. But although his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bells Tolls, is familiar as a classic account of the Spanish Civil War…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PMQuebec drama about a young mother's disintegrating sense of self is brilliantly strange and inspiring.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Poor Alice. She’s alone all day, with a six-month baby boy, while her husband Ben – a doctor – is out at work. Working all hours. She sleeps at odd times of the day, and at first seems…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:18PMMonday, March 28, 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 09:06AMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Jim Cartwright returns with a high-octane monologue about a night out, but has nothing to say beyond the banal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:26AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Recently, I’ve been meeting some pretty hyper people in the theatre. Fictional people. On stage. Lots of hyper women; lots of hyper agonised women. And men. Hypercative kids; hyped-up teen…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:10PMSunday, March 20, 2016
Powerful new play about a terror attack on London has strong passages, but is a bit too frantically humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:08PMFriday, March 18, 2016
Monologue about an acute manic-depressive episode is both vividly experiential and unforgettably informative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMThursday, March 17, 2016
New drama about the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:53AMWednesday, March 16, 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 06:05AMMonday, March 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 06:27AMMonday, March 7, 2016
Birdwatching is not the most thrilling subject for a drama. In fact, next to watching paint dry, it is probably the poorer option. So there is something wonderfully clever and theatrically b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:49PMThursday, March 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 02:27PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Revival of Alan Bennett’s classic double bill about the Cambridge Spies is resonant, but only takes off in the second half.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:07AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
New play from Jack Thorne about one couple’s tragic loss is both excruciating and oddly uplifting
The post The Solid Life of Sugar Water, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sier…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:59AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMMonday, February 29, 2016
Hurray, the two-part epic wizard-fest Harry Potter and the Cursed Child lands in the West End this summer, and its playwright is the ever-versatile Jack Thorne (who also successfully adapted…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:39PMSunday, February 28, 2016
New debut play inspired by the Rochdale child sex scandal is powerful, but also a bit slight and too short.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:25AMThursday, February 25, 2016
Katie Mitchell’s revival of Sarah Kane’s 1998 play sees it as a ghastly nightmare, but overburdens the text with too many additions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMWednesday, February 24, 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 08:51AMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Although everyone agrees that Sarah Kane was one of the most influential British playwrights of the 1990s, revivals of her work have been few and far between. Now, at last, some 17 years aft…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:43PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Here's a favourite stage direction...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AMSaturday, February 20, 2016
Irish stage adaptation of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel is powerfully emotional and stunningly performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AM 
