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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.
Verse play about British soldiers returning from Afghanistan is harrowing and moving, but perhaps a touch too polished.
New Caryl Churchill play returns to the fantasy world of Churchillia, where banality is totally invaded by horror.
Quote of the day: “Many have tried to deify Shakespeare.”
Caryl Churchill is a phenomenon. Now 77 years old, she remains not only prolific but also immensely inventive, having notched up more than 35 original plays, many of which have been innovati…
Text of the day: I was thinking about Ross, Adele, and Bergsie.
Powerful play about brothers comes storming into Sloane Square from Manchester, trailing tenderness and terror.
The war in Afghanistan has not exactly been neglected by contemporary British theatre, and the plight of returned soldiers is a standard trope of new writing. These distant wars function in …
Feral kids are a media stereotype, but they make good strong subjects for drama. In Anna Jordan's new play, which was first seen at the Manchester Royal Exchange last year after winning the …
New play about internet porn is both an entertaining fable and a disturbing vision of corruption.
Award-winning American actor and playwright Eric Bogosian has gone mammoth.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Unmoving revival of Simon Stephens' teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth to trendy directorial gimmicks.
New drama about traumatic amnesia is based on a good idea, but is just too bland to stay long in the memory.
Be careful what you wish for. I've always moaned about the fact that British theatre is too naturalistic, and that its stagings are too banal, full of quotidian detail and a specific sense o…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
It is a nightmare scenario: you have an accident that leaves you comatose. You are out of action in hospital for three weeks and then, when you wake up, you gradually realise that you don't …
Trio of monologues about suicidal masculinity roars its way through the theatre and burrows deep inside your mind.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
You have to admire Rob Hayes's choice of titles. Although his latest doesn't quite have the shock value of Awkward Conversations With Animals I've Fucked, his 2014 Edinburgh Festival hit, Th…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
The best theatre is controversial theatre, but some controversies just make you want to weep. Out of Joint theatre company has been touring Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Jane Wenham: The Witch of Wal…
Does Neil McPherson, artistic director of this fringe venue, have a direct line to the North Korean capital? In an uncanny coincidence he is opening In-Sook Chappell's new play about everyda…
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.
