For his last show at the Bush, Madani Younis has chosen a project close to his heart, Vinay Patel's An Adventure, an epic reading of one Asian family's global migration story.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
An overwhelmingly powerful new play about motherhood and psychological collapse: Lesley Sharp amazes in The Woods at the Royal Court Theatre.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Coyly advertised as Holy Sh!t, actor and writer Alexis Zegerman's new play is a topical account of the lengths that some parents will go to get their kids into the best local schools.
Alison Carr's Caterpillar, a finalist in the Theatre 503's Playwriting Award, gets an excellent staging and will later tour to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
It is a fitting moment to watch Oladipo Agboluaje's New Nigerians, which was first staged at this Off-West End venue in February 2017, and now returns " and I'm happy to say that it's as fre…
Atiha Sen Gupta's Abi, a 60-minute monologue, performed with enormous zest and attractive energy by Safiyya Ingar, is a response to Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party and looks at what happen…
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.
Laura Wades’s return to the stage is a bright satire about marriage and nostalgic fantasy The post Home, I’m Darling, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
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Director Lyndsey Turner is clearly impatient with the tradition of playing this melancholy drama as a tribute to Chekhov, and her production is thoroughly anti-naturalistic.
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This West End revival of smart monologue about drug dealing on the Dark Web is well written if a bit slight.
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.
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.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Now, on the main stage at the Royal Court Theatre, Rory Mullarkey's leftfield fantasy, Pity, offers a surreal state-of-the-world account of our society, and of its discombobulations.
For a play about storytelling, most of A Monster Calls is oddly unengaging and bland. Worst of all, it does the audience's moral work for them, being increasingly didactic and offering its s…
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Allelujah! is not a masterpiece, mainly because most of the characters are underdeveloped and there is too much going on, but it is extremely funny and it has something very urgent to say, a…