1,418 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
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.
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.
For its reopening, Younis has looked across the pond for a new play. He has chosen Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj, which was first staged at the Atlantic Theatre, New York, in 2015, pickin…
West London new writing venue reopens with an ethically troubling play about another architectural marvel.
There is an appealing simplicity to the narrative of Camus's 1947 novel: originally set in Oran, in French Algerian, the book tells the story of a devastating infection that starts off slowl…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
It's hot. Real hot. And you're dancing, just lost in music. You're at the legendary Shrine nightclub in Lagos, where Afrobeat star Fela Kuti is king. It's 1994. And it's hot. Sweat is just p…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Rape is such a serious social issue that it's hardly surprising that several recent plays have tackled it. I'm thinking of Gary Owen's Violence and Son, James Fritz's Four Minutes Twelve Sec…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Updating the classics is not without its pitfalls. How can a modern audience, which has a completely different set of religious beliefs, relate to a 17th-century morality tale in which the l…
Chinglish was first staged in on Broadway in 2011, and is set in Guiyang (pop four million). Daniel Cavanaugh, an American who heads a firm of Ohio sign-makers, wants to secure a deal with a…
There are many powerful metaphors for our way of life: a casino economy, the society of the spectacle, a modern Babylon. But there is plenty of room for another one, something strong, someth…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are his best plays regularly revived, but also his less good work now reaches a large audience. S…
The beauty of fiction is that its stories have both compelling shape and deep meaning " they are dramas in which things feel right and true and real. The trouble with real life is that it's …
