1,385 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
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.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A short evening of satirical swipes at politicians, plotters and prophets is only fitfully funny and occasionally sharp.
Is there any point to political satire? The great thing about the glory years of this genre in, say, the early 1960s was that the jokes punctured people's deepest held beliefs in a deferenti…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
As I sit down to write this, a crow is cawing outside my window while night falls; for an awkard moment I think it might be a raven, and this reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Is the black bird…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Ace! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superbly staged and brilliantly performed... Each exchange is like a duel, and each duel is humorous as well a…
Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange is one of the best plays of the past two decades. First staged at the National Theatre in 2000, with the dream cast of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln and Bill Nig…
Screaming Lord Sutch biog-play is raucously entertaining, but rather superficial and thin on content.
Fact of the day: London staged 22 per cent of all theatre shows in England in 2014, up from 19 per cent in 2013.
The sense of humour is a funny thing. It raises questions about whether what we find funny can tells us anything about who we are, or what we might become. The case of Screaming Lord Sutch, …
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.
Rare anniversary revival of Heathcote Williams’s 1966 short is very powerful, if a bit too shouty in parts.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Howard Brenton’s new study of desert warrior T E Lawrence is more like a frustrating mirage than a nourishing oasis.
