1,376 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
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.
There's something endlessly fascinating about T E Lawrence. In popular culture, he has been immortalised by Peter O'Toole's dazzlingly blue-eyed performance in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabi…
Classic adaptation of the Graham Greene story is warm-hearted and entertaining, but also stuck in the past.
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. Here's the Quote of the month...The post Bill Bryson on Shake…
New one from Nick Payne explores brain science and female relationships, but is just a bit too superficial.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Playwright Nick Payne has carved out a distinctive dramatic territory " neuroscience. In his big 2012 hit, Constellations, he explored the effect on memory of living with a brain tumour, whi…
One man’s psychological problems make for a powerful thriller that digs deep into our current anxieties.
