Thursday, December 20, 2018
Can you really turn a three-page short story into a full-length play? What would you add, and how would you avoid accusations of padding? Anthony Neilson's new version of Edgar Allan Poe's T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The Convert, at the Young Vic Theatre, a thrilling revival of Black Panther Danai Gurira's 2012 play about Christianity and imperialism is a heartfelt cry for justice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
Mark Ravenhill's comeback play The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre is a brilliant, complex and mature account of the abuse of power.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
Hole, a short new play from actor Ellie Kendrick is full of ferocity but is not strong on originality or nuance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2018
Lisa Carroll's Cuckoo, her new debut play about Irish teens, has some exciting dialogue but its production doesn't quite deliver.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Plays about old age are often also plays about death. This is certainly true of American novelist Don DeLillo's evocatively titled 2005 play, Love-Lies-Bleeding.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
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 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2018
If there is a good argument for remembrance, and there is an equally good one for forgetting, what you can never forget is the War Horse experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
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 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2018
It seems to be a great time to be a female playwright, and Ifeyinwa Frederick's irreverently noisy, and often hilarious, debut play The Hoes is proof that there is a lot of upcoming new tale…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
An imaginative adaptation of Zadie Smith's 2000 contemporary classic White Teeth at the Kiln Theatre is let down by unnecessary music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
New play about genius and the classical music world is engaging in its ideas and deep in its feelings
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2018
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything at the Bush Theatre, a new pop opera about a couple of young people across three decades is simply exhilarating.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre is a brilliant revival of Martin Crimp's savage satire on human greed and male attitudes to women.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2018
Covering both contemporary experience and historical background, debbie tucker green's Ear for Eye at the Royal Court feels like an instant classic. But it's not an easy watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 27, 2018
On the 50th anniversary of 1968, David Edgar looks back at his younger self and explores the results of radical politics< in Trying It On at the Royal Court.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
Very very very feeble: Martin McDonagh's latest play, A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre, is poorly written, self-plagiarising and lacks imagination.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
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 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
Ken Urban's intense and revelatory two-hander is powerfully performed by Clifford Samuel and Douglas Booth. Whatever you compare it with, A Guide for the Homesick thrills both the nerve ends…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2018
At the National Theatre, Stories " Nina Raine's follow-up to her very big hit Consent " is emotionally intelligent and often funny but rarely deep.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
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 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Is there such a thing as sheer theatrical joy? Yes, there is, and it comes from an unexpected source: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of Twelfth Night at the Young Vic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2018
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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