Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 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: The Arts Desk at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 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 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Friday, October 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 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 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 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
Lurid satire on the British tabloids returns with a vengeance in a hilarious evening of sharp jokes and farce
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PM[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 04:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:04AM[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 04:09AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
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, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:40PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:22PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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…
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