1,385 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
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.
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…
