'Thrillingly written & often joyful play': WIFE " Kiln Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Wife at the Kiln Theatre is a decade-hopping epic about marriage and sexual identity which joyfully celebrates the art of theatre.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on June 9, 2019☆⚑

'Brilliantly tense play': ARMADILLO " Yard Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Sarah Kosar's new play Armadillo at the Yard Theatre, about guns and power, is an edge-of-your seat experience which is both frightening and troubling.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00am on June 6, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Anna by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on June 5, 2019☆⚑

'Worthy but certainly not revelatory': RUTHERFORD & SON " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Revival of Githa Sowerby's 1912 classic of industrial patriarchy Rutherford and Son is worthy but rather cumbersome and inaccessible.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 5:00am on June 4, 2019☆⚑

'Gives the story an emotional & psychological depth': BLUEPRINT MEDEA " Finborough Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Julia Pascal's retelling of the Medea myth in Blueprint Medea situates the story in the contemporary struggle of the Kurdish people for their own homeland.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 5:00am on June 1, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: White Pearl by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on May 28, 2019☆⚑

'The thriller aspects are definitely effective, if not the sense of history': ANNA " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Intriguing Cold War thriller Anna is thoroughly immersive, but lacks a convincing sense of historical reality.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 6:00am on May 25, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Out of Water by Aleks Sierz

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 10:00am on May 22, 2019☆⚑

'Powerful, direct & allusive': SALT. " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

One woman's journey to explore the legacy of the slave trade is brilliantly personal and provocative in salt. at the Royal Court Theatre.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 6:00am on May 20, 2019☆⚑

'Mildly interesting, mildly well written & mildly amusing': WHITE PEARL " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

White Pearl at the Royal Court Theatre, a new satire about the cosmetics industry and race, plays with stereotypes but is only mildly funny.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on May 19, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Jude by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on May 17, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Rosmersholm by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on May 13, 2019☆⚑

'Relevant & fulsomely entertaining': SMALL ISLAND " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The stage version of Andrea Levy's classic Windrush story is a fun epic that takes ages and ages to warm up.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on May 11, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: The Half God of Rainfall by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on May 9, 2019☆⚑

'A small play that radiates with a wider resonance': OUT OF WATER " Orange Tree Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Out of Water, a new play about gender, regional and professional identity, rides the crest of the feelgood factor.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 6:00am on May 6, 2019☆⚑

'In the end this is more comedy than tragedy': JUDE " Hampstead Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Jude, Howard Brenton's new cerebral tragi-comedy about a Syrian refugee's Oxford dreams, is just too gnomic.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on May 5, 2019☆⚑

'Flies because of the vigour of the text & the electricity of the staging': THE HALF GOD OF RAINFALL " Kiln Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Poetic two-hander The Half God of Rainfall combines epic myth, family relationships and gender politics in an exciting evening.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 7:00am on May 3, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Three Sisters by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on May 1, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: A German Life by Aleks Sierz

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 12:00pm on April 27, 2019☆⚑

'Disappointingly uneven': ALL MY SONS " The Old Vic by Aleks Sierz

Revival of Arthur Miller's classic family drama All My Sons is very starry but the result is disappointingly uneven.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 6:00am on April 26, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Top Girls by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on April 25, 2019☆⚑

'Disappointingly middle of the road': THREE SISTERS " Almeida Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Chekhov classic from the team behind the West End hit Summer and Smoke is too middle of the road The post Three Sisters, Almeida Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 7:00am on April 20, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Pah-La by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on April 18, 2019☆⚑

Text of the Day: Emilia by Aleks Sierz

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 11:00am on April 16, 2019☆⚑

'The piece's message is rather fuzzy': PAH-LA " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Pah-La, a new play about the freedom struggle in Tibet, is a bit too unclear and unfocused for its own good.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 5:00am on April 12, 2019☆⚑