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David Hare's charming new play is a very English account of a very English institution - Glyndebourne. The Moderate Soprano tells the story of John Christie, an eccentric English businessman…
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.
Lurid satire on the British tabloids returns with a vengeance in a hilarious evening of sharp jokes and farce
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Once upon a time, quite recently, you couldn't move for plays about youth. Now, there's been an avalanche of dramas about ageing, usually in the context of dementia and family life. Maybe al…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Once upon a time, quite recently, you couldn't move for plays about youth. Now, there's been an avalanche of dramas about ageing, usually in the context of dementia and family life. Maybe al…
On my way to see this show, I had to walk across Soho in central London. No fewer than five people asked me for money; one was a real hassle. Yes, I know the government says that the economy…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
On my way to see this show, I had to walk across Soho. No fewer than five people asked me for money; one was a real hassle. Yes, I know that the government says that the economy is booming, …
Over the past quarter century the reputation of toff playwright Terence Rattigan has been restored, mainly by strong stagings of his classic dramas, such as Deep Blue Sea. But his first smas…
Dementia is an increasingly common theme in theatre, television and film. But although there are plenty of stories about old people suffering from Alzheimer's, what does it feel like to expe…
Titles don't come much more evocative than this: Valhalla, the gigantic hall in Odin's Asgard where those slain in battle come to feast, is the Norse mythological version of the Islamist fan…
Writer Anthony Horowitz is a busy man. Having written more than 40 books, he has also worked in many media. One year, he's penning another series of the ever-popular Foyle's War; the next he…
The actor and historian Ian Kelly is fascinated by the way that performers use the theatre to understand not only themselves, but also the world. In this new play, he looks at the life and c…
Welcome back Martin McDonagh. It's been more than 10 years since you've had a play on in London, and I was beginning to think that we had lost you to Broadway, and Hollywood, for ever. As yo…
With the election of lefty outsider Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership, are we entering a new era when upsets and surprises have become a new way of life? Is it really true that anything…
When is a monologue not quite a monologue? When it is interrupted by another voice, one that contradicts and argues with it. In Cordelia Lynn's Lela & Co, her Royal Court debut (which is…
We all know what the word "addict" means, but what does it feel like to be one? Thirtysomething Emma " a minor actress played with immense conviction and quirky charm by Denise Gough " knows…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has not been very prominent in the news recently, but that doesn't mean that it has gone away. As Julia Pascal's 2003 play reminds us, religious and ethnic t…
On contemporary stages, absence is a constant presence. This is very odd if you consider how corporeal and concrete theatre is. Unlike film, which is just light shining on a screen, or books…
The trouble with the classics is that they are long, complex and difficult. But today's sensibility favours the quick, simple and easy. So it is no surprise that the National Theatre have op…
In the age of austerity, it's getting harder and harder to avoid cliché. Especially well-meaning cliché. For example, all cuts to welfare are bad; we must defend government support of the …
The reason that Caryl Churchill is Britain's best living playwright is that her work is endlessly enquiring and peerlessly intelligent. When she wrote this play about the subject of human cl…
One of the most talented playwrights to emerge in 2000s, debbie tucker green is a law unto herself. The best word to describe her is uncompromising. When I interviewed her in 2003 she refuse…
