Friday, March 18, 2016
Monologue about an acute manic-depressive episode is both vividly experiential and unforgettably informative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
New drama about the Arab Spring in Syria gets diverted into a story about mental health and is too complicated as a result.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:27AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
Birdwatching is not the most thrilling subject for a drama. In fact, next to watching paint dry, it is probably the poorer option. So there is something wonderfully clever and theatrically b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Revival of Alan Bennett’s classic double bill about the Cambridge Spies is resonant, but only takes off in the second half.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
New play from Jack Thorne about one couple’s tragic loss is both excruciating and oddly uplifting
The post The Solid Life of Sugar Water, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sier…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:59AM[SHARE]Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
New debut play inspired by the Rochdale child sex scandal is powerful, but also a bit slight and too short.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Katie Mitchell’s revival of Sarah Kane’s 1998 play sees it as a ghastly nightmare, but overburdens the text with too many additions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:43PM[SHARE]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...
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2016
Irish stage adaptation of Eimear McBride’s award-winning novel is powerfully emotional and stunningly performed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
Gemma Arterton shines wonderfully in West End outing for jolly, if rather superficial, Restoration romp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:57AM[SHARE]Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
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,…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:17PM[SHARE]Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:27AM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2016
Peter Brook revisits The Mahabharata with more philosophy than politics, and with a perfection that ultimately feels chilly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 7, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2016
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:43PM[SHARE]New Welsh monologue focuses on the sacrifices demanded from its young female heroine, but what are its politics?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
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