1,386 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
Last week, I trekked down to the Orange Tree Theatre to see the recast revival of Deborah Bruce’s The Distance, which had first been staged there in October 2014.
North Korea is the kind of place that haunts the imagination of the West " and not in a good way. One of the last hardline Communist dictatorships, it is also a country of immense sadness, a…
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.
New play about a self-made career woman is well acted, but rather predictable and banal in its writing.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Don't you just love celebrity hype? Kim Cattrall's name alone sold out this show, which runs over the notoriously difficult Christmas period. But sometimes star casting backfires, and when s…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
New RD Laing drama is an imaginatively and enjoyably surreal tribute to a great 20th-century thinker and radical.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A true theatre masterpiece can survive any directorial mugging. By this definition, Harold Pinter's 1965 play, The Homecoming, is a robust work of genius. It has to be because, from the very…
RD ("Ronnie") Laing was a typically eccentric 1960s guru. A Scottish psychiatrist who was one of the leading lights of the anti-psychiatry movement, his 1960 classic The Divided Self helped …
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
You'd think that there is no more to be said about George Bernard Shaw. You'd be wrong. As Professor Christopher Innes and mezzo-soprano Brigitte Bogar say in the informative booklet for the…
New play about an illicit encounter between a teen student and an older teacher is powerful and challenging.
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
This new play about the relationship between a Brit and a Pole has some good moments, but remains undernourishing.
Very well-deserved West end transfer for thrilling new play about ethics in the age of the internet... How well do parents know their kids? Especially their teenage kids. Jack appears to be …
Do scandals have a sell-by date? When it comes to sex and politicians, the answer is no. The tabloids, and the news-hungry public, still seem to relish a good story about a powerful man who …
One of the quiet joys of contemporary British theatre is the small play. You know the kind of thing: a boy meets girl story, told with sharp dialogue, and quirky humour. Usually with a cast …
Theatre is one of the glories of British culture, a melting pot of creativity and innovation. Beginning with the coronation of Elizabeth I and ending with the televised crowning of the curre…
Do scandals have a sell-by date? When it comes to sex and politicians, the answer is no. The tabloids, and the news-hungry public, still seem to relish a good story about a powerful man who …
David Hare is one of those playwrights who talks with enormous imaginative sympathy about the work of other writers. To read what he says about John Osborne or Harold Pinter is to have your …
Theatre should be an adventure. At least some of the time. But often it isn't. So much of the time it's rather predictable and, dare I say, a bit boring. After going to the theatre for many …
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
