Wednesday, March 29, 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 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are his best plays regularly revived, but also his less good work now reaches a large audience. S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
The beauty of fiction is that its stories have both compelling shape and deep meaning " they are dramas in which things feel right and true and real. The trouble with real life is that it's …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
In Filthy Business, a comic epic, playwright Ryan Craig travels back in time to explore the poisonous and reptilian atmosphere of the Solomon family, the owners of a retail rubber business i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[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 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 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 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Ex-EastEnder Michelle Collins stars in haunting, if slightly flawed, account of belief and loneliness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a production that has all the acrid flavour of virtue signalling.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
Satinder Chohan's punningly titled Made in India, has been touring the country since January and now arrives at the Soho Theatre in London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
Politics is a serious business, but it's also a fun spectator sport. Think of the duels in Prime Minister's Questions; or the marathon that is Brexit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 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]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Love, we know, will tear us apart again. And again. And yet again. It will shred our nerves and rip through our guts; it will fill us with anguish, and then douse us in regrets.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
Theatre increasingly uses digital delights to enhance audience enjoyment. And you can easily see why.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
Despite this, and the freezing temperature of the venue, the Styx, I was struck by how well the work has endured, and how recent global disasters (Syria, Brexit, the refugee crisis) have onl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he came at theatre from leftfield. In the 1980s, he didn't go to drama school " he went to art co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Latest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 25, 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]Thursday, February 23, 2017
The late Clare McIntyre's Low Level Panic has a great title for a 1980s feminist drama. In three words she presents the emotional landscape of her play: uncertain, edgy, angsty.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Verbatim theatre always raises theatrical and ethical issues. The use of the words spoken by real-life, as opposed to fictional, people always argues in favour of authenticity (which is not …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2017
Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 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, February 10, 2017
Set in Dubai, the glowing capital city of the United Arab Emirates, it tells two parallel stories: one is the conflict between two English twentysomethings, Jamie and Clara, who travel to th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Run the Beast Down, which runs in rep with Carmen Nasr's Dubailand. Run the Beast Down is a solo show in which actor Ben Aldridge performs a 90-minute monologue about Charlie, a young man wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[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 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 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 11:30AM[SHARE]Jamie Lloyd tackles Philip Ridley’s 1991 modern classic — with terrifically immersive results.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]New American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.
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