1,385 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
James McAvoy triumphs in Martin Crimp's magnificent makeover of the French classic Cyrano de Bergerac: a jaw-dropping success.
Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer, an intriguing documentary drama about the chess match of the century, gets bogged down in its final half hour.
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as we…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
I wanted to love this Midnight Movie, but " like almost any screen experience " I couldn't quite connect with it. Despite some disturbing passages, it feels like less than the sum of its par…
Originally produced in association with Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, director Raz Shaw's production of The Greatest Play in the History of the World is one of the most charming and d…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by all, and the worst, being boringly unimaginative and frankly banal. The hegemony of this aesth…
Some news stories have a very long half-life. Their power to shock does not diminish; they continue to radiate pain. One such is the gang rape and murder that happened in South Delhi in D…
Director Bijan Sheibani turns playwright in a fine two-hander about family and the crisis of masculinity in The Arrival at the Bush Theatre.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Actor Miriam Margolyes is a phenomenon. Not only has this Dickensian specialist starred in high-profile shows both here and in Australia, a country whose citizenship she took up in 2013, but…
#WeAreArrested, a new RSC adaptation of Turkish editor Can Dündar's prison memoir, is beautifully written and simply staged.
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing the messenger seems to be an accepted way of falsifying the facts"and this applies to any s…
South America's trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase: The Disappeared. Whether in Argentina or Chile or anywhere else, the victims of military di…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
David Greig's much-lauded mountaineering survival story fails to reach the dizzy heights.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
This touring production of Trojan Horse, a verbatim theatre piece about the Birmingham schools scandal, is absorbingly polemical and moving.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Believe in ideas? David Baddiel's new play God's Dice stars Alan Davies as a scientist drawn to religion.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Caridad Svich's excellent adaptation of Isabel Allende's 1982 modern classic The House of the Spirits is an epic and emotional evocation of South American history.
One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy amply prove, it's easier to speculate about t…
