1,376 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
Game of Thrones celebrity casting can’t save a misconceived, vulgarly populist updating of this Renaissance classic.
New play about a lost teenage youth has an impressive production, but is thin on plot and character.
New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Alistair McDowall’s follow up to his big 2014 hit Pomona is less dazzling, but more emotionally desolate and ambiguous.
Spirited revival of the 1980s feminist classic is a bit too shrill, yet also quietly moving when it matters.
Charlotte Keatley's 1987 feminist classic is one of the most often performed plays by a woman writer. It is typical of its time in that this story of four generations of women in one family …
New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic.
Why do young British Muslims go to join the so-called Islamic State? Since the entire media has been grappling with this question for ages now, it is a bit puzzling to see our flagship Natio…
Atmospheric revival of Harold Pinter’s psychological drama is too long and too elaborate to be genuinely moving.
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.
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. But although his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bells Tolls, is familiar as a classic account of the Spanish Civil War…
Quebec drama about a young mother's disintegrating sense of self is brilliantly strange and inspiring.
Poor Alice. She's alone all day, with a six-month baby boy, while her husband Ben " a doctor " is out at work. Working all hours. She sleeps at odd times of the day, and at first seems to ha…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Jim Cartwright returns with a high-octane monologue about a night out, but has nothing to say beyond the banal.
Recently, I've been meeting some pretty hyper people in the theatre. Fictional people. On stage. Lots of hyper women; lots of hyper agonised women. And men. Hypercative kids; hyped-up teens;…
Powerful new play about a terror attack on London has strong passages, but is a bit too frantically humorous.
Monologue about an acute manic-depressive episode is both vividly experiential and unforgettably informative.
New drama about the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result.
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.
Birdwatching is not the most thrilling subject for a drama. In fact, next to watching paint dry, it is probably the poorer option. So there is something wonderfully clever and theatrically b…
