FURY " Soho Theatre
New drama about a desperate single mother is powerfully written and raises some disturbing issues.
New drama about a desperate single mother is powerfully written and raises some disturbing issues.
Anthony Neilson’s newly devised piece is both a comic masterpiece and a disappointingly unbalanced work.
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.
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 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…