Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
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 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
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, July 18, 2017
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 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
New drama about surrogacy is rich in metaphor and fraught with conflict, but you have to ignore its politics.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
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 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
We're familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad's Army, gamely tramping down the country lanes and across the verdant fields of southern England during the second world war. But,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
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]Thursday, June 29, 2017
Graham tells the eye-opening story of how Murdoch bought the ailing Sun newspaper and turned it into Britain's most popular tabloid by focusing on the tycoon's relationship with Larry Lamb, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
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]Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Can the theatre be a courtroom? A good public place to debate morality and to arrive at profound decisions? You could answer this with a history lesson that ranges from the ancient Greeks to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
This play's subject is alienation, at work and in the home. (But mainly at work.) In contemporary society, office work seems to symbolize a life of modern drudgery.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
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 08:30AM[SHARE]Hir is set in a settlement somewhere in California's Central Valley, where plywood houses have been built on landfill sites, and dozens lie empty, abandoned during an economic downturn. All …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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, June 19, 2017
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]Saturday, June 17, 2017
Vs is a short but energizing piece of dance theatre. It's fun, but it would be even more fun if it didn't come clothed in the relentless hype that Goode and his admirers have created around …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
The plot kicks off with disarming simplicity. Alastair is a rich fortysomething legal eagle, married to Antonia, who is a housewife. They live in a beautiful London house with Jack, one of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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, June 13, 2017
And what an excruciating, yet devastatingly brilliant, two hours they are. The play shows episodes from the life of the women of one family spread over three time periods: one starts in the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
Black theatre used to be one of most creative aspects of contemporary British drama. But recently a lot of the impetus behind plays by black playwrights seems to have dried up. The great nam…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
History is a tricky harlot. She is bought and sold, fought for and thrown over, seduced and betrayed " and always at the mercy of the winners. In a general election week, it is hard to deny …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
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 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2017
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 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
In this general election, the intergenerational conflict between youth and old age is never far from the surface. The oldies have never had it so good; the young ones are Generation Rent, cr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
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, May 26, 2017
This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon is the most intelligent and most theatre-savvy play on today's London stage: it is a satire on staging race, an acco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2017
It's a radical rewrite. Gone is a lot of the mystery and the poetry of the original. In their place is a contemporary, accessible version which emphasises realistic psychology (a lot of back…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
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 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
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, May 15, 2017
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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