1,376 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
New play about the friendship between two young binge-drinking women is full of vigour, but lacks drama.
Revival of the late Brian Friel’s 1979 classic is brilliantly acted, beautifully directed and haunting in its ambiguity.
Oh dear. I could have sworn I had a book about Irish playwright Brian Friel somewhere. But I can't find it. Or maybe I never bought it. Maybe I just thought I might have bought it. Maybe it'…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A likeable and energetically acted satire on supermarkets is occasionally fun, but rather lacking in dramatic force.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
New play about a forgotten First World War poet stages both the passion of youth and the pity of war.
Mike Bartlett’s latest, inspired by the Edward Snowden affair, relies on a coup de theatre to get out of a stalled plot.
Collection of four monologues is free-thinkingly transgressive, politically incorrect and thoroughly delightful.
Philip Ridley’s latest is an ambitious fantasy epic whose scope and majesty will blow you clean away.
Polymath playwright Philip Ridley is endlessly inventive. Having written a couple of exciting pieces of bravura storytelling " Tender Napalm (2012) and Dark Vanilla Jungle (2014) " he went o…
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.
Terence Rattigan’s best play stars Helen McCrory in an uncertain production that attempts an emotional update.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
From being the Aunt Sally of contemporary British theatre, attacked by the angry young men in the 1950s and the new wave of social and political realists for three decades after that, playwr…
Delightful two-hander is a comedy about married life and the truth of parenthood that is both funny and wise.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Six veterans of both British and Argentinian armies feature in a disappointingly ultra-cool Falklands War drama.
Like the 1956 Suez Crisis for a previous generation, the 1982 Falklands War (or should that be Islas Malvinas War?) was a turning point for all those who lived through the Thatcher decade. S…
Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern stars in a new play about Greece that is both intelligent and very enjoyable.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Greece has had a bad press in recent years. A place that used to conjure up visions of lazy days on sun-soaked islands, with summer food and warm seas, now just reminds us of the migration c…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A powerful account of the realities of FGM is brilliantly written and superbly staged as an urgent piece of new writing.
