
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]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]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]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]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]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]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 08:56AM[SHARE]Verse play about British soldiers returning from Afghanistan is harrowing and moving, but perhaps a touch too polished.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]New Caryl Churchill play returns to the fantasy world of Churchillia, where banality is totally invaded by horror.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:37AM[SHARE]Quote of the day: “Many have tried to deify Shakespeare.”
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:26AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:50PM[SHARE]Text of the day: I was thinking about Ross, Adele, and Bergsie.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Powerful play about brothers comes storming into Sloane Square from Manchester, trailing tenderness and terror.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:35AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:28PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:46PM[SHARE]New play about internet porn is both an entertaining fable and a disturbing vision of corruption.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Award-winning American actor and playwright Eric Bogosian has gone mammoth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AM[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 09:31AM[SHARE]Unmoving revival of Simon Stephens' teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth to trendy directorial gimmicks.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]New drama about traumatic amnesia is based on a good idea, but is just too bland to stay long in the memory.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:01AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36PM[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 05:00AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:45PM[SHARE]Trio of monologues about suicidal masculinity roars its way through the theatre and burrows deep inside your mind.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AM[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 04:30AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:14PM[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 09:03AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:53PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]

