Monday, February 6, 2017
New American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing enough.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 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 11:00AM[SHARE]New play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The characters are instantly familiar: Richard is a bit gauche, a bit geeky, a bit immature; Katie is sassy, strong-minded, but still obsessed with You Know Who, an ex who treated her badly.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]The enterprising Arcola Theatre in East London has chosen to start its Revolution Season with a revival of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths (1902), which has opened a couple of months short of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 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, January 26, 2017
OMG! The much-revived hit rom-com show is LOL funny, but also a bit thin content-wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]The Lower Depths is a rarely performed large-cast play that offers a panorama of poverty in the last years of Tsarist Russia. Its portrait of human degradation in a doss-house somewhere on t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic or too matter-of-factly journalistic? Maybe an oblique approach is the answer.
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 05:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
A day or so after Theresa May's keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an electric charge. For Leavers, they represent the evil empire; for Remainers, a world we hav…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 14, 2017
You could call it the Corbynisation of new writing. In the past couple of years, a series of plays have plumbed the lower depths, looking at the subject of good people trapped in zero-hour c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Wednesday, January 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
Twentieth anniversary revival of Yasmina Reza’s contemporary classic is well acted, but conservative.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 4, 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 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 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]Friday, December 30, 2016
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, December 29, 2016
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 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2016
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]Modern-dress revival of wordy George Bernard Shaw classic is a tour de force for Gemma Arterton.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2016
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 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
New devised piece about poverty and temporary accommodation is extremely powerful, but also deeply flawed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Top director Ivo van Hove makes an uneven Southbank debut, preferring visual beauty to emotional connection.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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, December 11, 2016
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]Saturday, December 10, 2016
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television hit returns to the stage, still rocking with laughter and coolness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2016
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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