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Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Revival of Alan Bennett’s classic double bill about the Cambridge Spies is resonant, but only takes off in the second half.
New play from Jack Thorne about one couple’s tragic loss is both excruciating and oddly uplifting
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Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Hurray, the two-part epic wizard-fest Harry Potter and the Cursed Child lands in the West End this summer, and its playwright is the ever-versatile Jack Thorne (who also successfully adapted…
New debut play inspired by the Rochdale child sex scandal is powerful, but also a bit slight and too short.
Katie Mitchell’s revival of Sarah Kane’s 1998 play sees it as a ghastly nightmare, but overburdens the text with too many additions.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Although everyone agrees that Sarah Kane was one of the most influential British playwrights of the 1990s, revivals of her work have been few and far between. Now, at last, some 17 years aft…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Here's a favourite stage direction...
Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
Irish stage adaptation of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel is powerfully emotional and stunningly performed.
Eimear McBride's debut novel, the provocatively titled A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, won the first Goldsmiths Prize in 2013, as well as the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction a year later. T…
Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
Actor and director Simon McBurney's one-man show has arrived in London after gathering plaudits in Edinburgh and elsewhere last year " before setting off again on a nationwide and European t…
Gemma Arterton shines wonderfully in West End outing for jolly, if rather superficial, Restoration romp.
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.
As a subject for drama, theatre history is always popular in the West End. Between Mr Foote's Other Leg, which has recently closed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Mrs Henderson Presents,…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Peter Brook revisits The Mahabharata with more philosophy than politics, and with a perfection that ultimately feels chilly.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Legendary director Peter Brook makes theatre that teaches audiences to be human. Now 90 years old, he brings his latest project to London from Paris, where he has been based at the Bouffes d…
New Welsh monologue focuses on the sacrifices demanded from its young female heroine, but what are its politics?
Quote of the day: “What I have in mind is not a forced topicality, a Hamlet that would be set in a cellar of young existentialists.
