Thursday, March 22, 2018
Based on the eye-opening true stories of Japanese people abducted by the North Korean regime, in order for them to train spies and saboteurs, Great Wave expresses thrilling feelings of loss,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 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]Friday, March 16, 2018
Although the temptation might be to dismiss Buggy Baby as an oddity, that would be a mistake. Both the originality of the writing, its rapidity, its mix of the mundane and the surreal, and t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Characterised by black humour, loopy writing and good acting, Humble Boy at the Orange Tree Theatre combines laugh-out-loud delights with a quietly moving ending.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 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, March 12, 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, March 10, 2018
Although The Best Man's message " that being defeated can be a victory of sorts " is appealingly paradoxical, it is unlikely to make your heart race very fast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 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]Sunday, March 4, 2018
Enjoyable performances, but I really do wish there had been less words in Electra at the Bunker Theatre, and more music and sharper storytelling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 3, 2018
Although The Mousetrap is often dismissed as a mere genre piece, all plot and no characters, I think this does an immense disservice both to Christie's skill and to the pleasure that murder …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
In The B*easts, Monica Dolan conveys an intelligent coolness as she makes her feelings known about social issues such as the pernicious effects of women's magazines. She also implies that if…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 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]Sunday, February 25, 2018
The best that can be said about Chris Goode's Jubilee is that it must surely be in the running for the hotly contested accolade of the worst show of the whole decade.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
This Frozen is a dark story, a revival of Bryony Lavery's 1998 award-winning play about a child killer " definitely no singing, no dancing, no hummable tunes, but it does have an outstanding…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Parenthood can be both empowering and fragile and Georgia Christou's debut Yous Two at the Hampstead Theatre is thrilling for its potential. Definitely a name to watch.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 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, February 19, 2018
Watching Angry makes you feel as if you've downed several super-alcoholic drinks " and then rushed out into the freezing cold night, under the cold unfeeling stars. Yes, welcome to Ridleylan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 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]With its almost unbearable ending, Dennis Kelly's play is a wonderful mix of hilarity and horror. Carey Mulligan is simply brilliant, totally at home on stage in Lyndsey Turner's well-paced,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
For Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre, Hytner has taken out the stalls seats of the new Bridge Theatre and created a promenade performance which begins, like a Trump rally, with a warm-up.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 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 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 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]Alan Ayckbourn's epic, very, very long satire on religion and sexual segregation prefers comedy to tragedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
New misery fest about the hard graft of rural life is symbolic, but it really lacks drama and resonance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Paines Plough, a new writing touring company led by James Grieve and George Perrin " in a co-production with Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre " have brought a trio of new work in reperto…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2018
There's a strong current of emotional truth running through the storms in Henry Darke's debut play, Booby's Bay, at the Finborough Theatre. Perhaps less comic than it should be, and certainl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 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]Monday, January 29, 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]Javaad Alipoor explores the dark world of lonely young men, seething with resentment, attracted by tech-savvy extremist groups, in The Believers Are But Brothers at the Bush Theatre.
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