1,385 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
History is a tricky harlot. She is bought and sold, fought for and thrown over, seduced and betrayed " and always at the mercy of the winners. In a general election week, it is hard to deny …
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.
In this general election, the intergenerational conflict between youth and old age is never far from the surface. The oldies have never had it so good; the young ones are Generation Rent, cr…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon is the most intelligent and most theatre-savvy play on today's London stage: it is a satire on staging race, an acco…
It's a radical rewrite. Gone is a lot of the mystery and the poetry of the original. In their place is a contemporary, accessible version which emphasises realistic psychology (a lot of back…
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.
Is God female? It says a lot about Yaël Farber's pompous and overblown new version of this biblical tale at the National Theatre that, near the end of an almighty 110-minute extravaganza,…
At a time when everyone is talking about globalization, when this is an issue in every election, plays about the international reach of European countries are still quite rare. So it's great…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
What is theatrical magic? I must admit that I don't really know, but I can tell you what it's not. It's not bog-standard naturalistic plays with predictable plots in one-room sets with stand…
In the growing xenophobic atmosphere of Brexit it is a relief to see a show from Europe, to get a foreign eye on the world. And to enjoy a Continental playwriting sensibility about the big t…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Set in rural County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in August 1981, the play takes place in the Carney home. This is a farming family, who grow cereals for export, and the head of the household is…
This is a really exciting book, which tells for the first time the almost unbelievable story of the National Theatre's production of Fernando Arrabal's The Architect and the Emperor of Assyr…
As you'd expect from the playwright who wrote Visitors (2014) and Eventide (2015), this new one is an ideal studio piece, in which it is important to hear every word and intonation, and see …
The Treatment has often been ignored, perhaps on account of its large cast, or because of its large scale. Now that the Almeida Theatre has decided to stage this story of how art cannibalise…
City of Glass, the first part of Auster's New York Trilogy, was first published in 1985. It's an enjoyably tricksy, postmodern novel in which Daniel Quinn, a detective-story writer, becomes …
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text can sometimes be a prison. At its best, postwar British theatre is a writer's theatre, with the great pensmiths " from Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Harold Pinter to Caryl Churchill,…
One good reason to visit the theatre is to see stars in the flesh. And some of the biggest celebs are familiar to us from television. So what should a savvy producer do? Well, put on a popul…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
