1,376 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
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…
Black comedy Sydney & The Old Girl is occasionally entertaining, but much too dark and dispiriting for its own good.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
On BearRidge, the first Ed Thomas play for 15 years, is a post-apocalyptic metaphor-fest which is tragic, lyrical and funny too.
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.
Jordan Tannahill's queering of Renaissance art in Botticelli In The Fire is riotously vulgar and completely unapologetic mash up.
A terrific revival of Arinzé Kene's 2011 coming-of-age drama Little Baby Jesus is mind-glowingly lyrical, energetic and wise.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Sarah Rutherford's new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
