Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Latest play by Wallace Shawn stars the playwright and is brilliantly satirical, but not much fun as an experience
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
Latest thriller from the Hampstead Theatre sees a reunion of two female childhood friends turn nasty, oh very nasty
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 19, 2015
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 09:08AM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2015
Because of the instability of the present there's always a faint whiff of nostalgia for the old certainties of the past. And the Cold War era has its very own allure. This can be seen in two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Past wrongs cast long shadows. Following the passing of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act, successive Australian governments favoured migrants from English-speaking countries in what was …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Past wrongs cast long shadows. Following the passing of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act, successive Australian governments favoured migrants from English-speaking countries in what was …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:52PM[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 05:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2015
Damon Albarn’s Alice in Wonderland musical has fun graphics, but a banal and didactic storyline — and poor tunes
The post wonder.land, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2015
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]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Widely hyped as "an Alice for the online generation", and "a coming-of-age adventure that explores the blurred boundaries between our online and offline lives", this version of Lewis Carroll…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:27PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
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 05:52AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
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 04:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
New play about a self-made career woman is well acted, but rather predictable and banal in its writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:50AM[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 04:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
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 04:08AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
New RD Laing drama is an imaginatively and enjoyably surreal tribute to a great 20th-century thinker and radical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
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 03:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
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 07:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AM[SHARE]New play about an illicit encounter between a teen student and an older teacher is powerful and challenging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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 05:11AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
This new play about the relationship between a Brit and a Pole has some good moments, but remains undernourishing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PM[SHARE]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…
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