Text of the Day: Winter Solstice 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 8:00am on January 27, 2017☆⚑

DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY " West End by Aleks Sierz

OMG! The much-revived hit rom-com show is LOL funny, but also a bit thin content-wise.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:31pm on January 26, 2017☆⚑

THE LOWER DEPTHS " Arcola Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The Lower Depths is a rarely performed large-cast play that offers a panorama of poverty in the last years of Tsarist Russia. Its portrait of human degradation in a doss-house somewhere on t…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on January 26, 2017☆⚑

US/THEM " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic or too matter-of-factly journalistic? Maybe an oblique approach is the answer.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00am on January 23, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: Wish List 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 5:00am on January 23, 2017☆⚑

WINTER SOLSTICE " Orange Tree Theatre by Aleks Sierz

A day or so after Theresa May's keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an electric charge. For Leavers, they represent the evil empire; for Remainers, a world we hav…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 6:00am on January 22, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: Harold Pinter on meaning 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 January 18, 2017☆⚑

WISH LIST " Royal Court by Aleks Sierz

You could call it the Corbynisation of new writing. In the past couple of years, a series of plays have plumbed the lower depths, looking at the subject of good people trapped in zero-hour c…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00am on January 14, 2017☆⚑

WISH LIST " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New play about casual work and disability is a thinly written Corbynesque drama.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00am on January 13, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: Art 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 6:00am on January 11, 2017☆⚑

ART " Old Vic Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Twentieth anniversary revival of Yasmina Reza’s contemporary classic is well acted, but conservative.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:30am on January 5, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: John Osborne on journalism 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 12:30pm on January 4, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: Fleabag 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 8:30am on January 3, 2017☆⚑

Text of the Day: Saint Joan 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 5:00am on December 30, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: Love 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 9:12am on December 29, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: Joan Littlewood on devising 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 December 23, 2016☆⚑

SAINT JOAN " Donmar Warehouse by Aleks Sierz

Modern-dress revival of wordy George Bernard Shaw classic is a tour de force for Gemma Arterton.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 7:00am on December 23, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: Hedda Gabler 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 10:30am on December 18, 2016☆⚑

LOVE " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

New devised piece about poverty and temporary accommodation is extremely powerful, but also deeply flawed.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00pm on December 16, 2016☆⚑

HEDDA GABLER " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Top director Ivo van Hove makes an uneven Southbank debut, preferring visual beauty to emotional connection.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 5:00am on December 14, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: The Pass 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 December 13, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: How To Date a Feminist 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 7:00am on December 11, 2016☆⚑

FLEABAG " Soho Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television hit returns to the stage, still rocking with laughter and coolness.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:00am on December 10, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: Simon Stephens on stage sex 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 10:45am on December 6, 2016☆⚑

Text of the Day: The Sewing Group 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 12:30pm on December 5, 2016☆⚑