1,418 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Anniversary revival of Joe Orton’s black farce about money and death is a delight from start to finish.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Star director Yael Farber's revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, but it lacks symbolic weight.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
New play about participation and democracy is entertaining enough, but a bit too tricksy and too so-what-ish?
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Andrew Scott's interpretation of the Prince of Denmark is stylish, relevant and completely contemporary.
Directed by Celine Rosenthal, Borders in a Bedroom is a short and slender work, but the playwright shows great promise.
The 1960s were "hilarious", says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon Stockard Channing, of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 family drama at the Trafalgar Studios. How so? "…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Latest play from DryWrite's Vicky Jones provides a vivid picture of contemporary metropolitan womanhood.
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?
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.
New drama about surrogacy is rich in metaphor and fraught with conflict, but you have to ignore its politics.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
We're familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad's Army, gamely tramping down the country lanes and across the verdant fields of southern England during the second world war. But,…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Graham tells the eye-opening story of how Murdoch bought the ailing Sun newspaper and turned it into Britain's most popular tabloid by focusing on the tycoon's relationship with Larry Lamb, …
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Can the theatre be a courtroom? A good public place to debate morality and to arrive at profound decisions? You could answer this with a history lesson that ranges from the ancient Greeks to…
This play's subject is alienation, at work and in the home. (But mainly at work.) In contemporary society, office work seems to symbolize a life of modern drudgery.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
