Sunday, October 23, 2016
New short play about sex and shame is partly a campaign tool and partly a plea for openness and understanding.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 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 07:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
David Hare’s latest is a superb adaptation of a Simenon thriller that is set in the United States.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 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 08:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Q: How do you review a show that includes lines that ask "can my mouth swallow my mouth"? A: With difficulty, but I should be okay as long as I resist the temptation of being as surreal as C…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:08PM[SHARE]New epic about mothers and daughters in the age of oil is wonderfully ambitious, but deeply unhistorical.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
At first, I was a bit confused by the play's title. After all, David Hare gave his 1998 adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde the moniker of The Blue Room, which coincidentally is the s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 15, 2016
Great work from Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith saves a nostalgic drama from wallowing in its own Britishness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:33AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
Twentieth-anniversary revival of 1990s zeitgeist play is flashy, loud and fun, but also lacks emotional connection
The post Shopping and F***ing, Lyric Hammersmith appeared first on Aleks S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2016
The best way to line up the stars is to offer them a chance to act in a play about the theatre. For this, Ronald Harwood's The Dresser has a good track record: its original West End outing s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Playwright Mark Ravenhill's 1996 Royal Court debut was not the decade's most shocking piece of theatre, but its title was, and is, certainly the one that troubles producers and publicists th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36PM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 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 11:15AM[SHARE]Yesterday, I was extremely glad to attend the Wesker Celebration, which was organised by playwright David Edgar, professor Pamela Howard and publicist Anne Mayer, at the Royal Court.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 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 08:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
Tom Hollander stars in fiendishly clever Stoppard classic which argues for the immortality of genius.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 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 09:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Is this the most dazzling play of a dazzling playwright? First staged in 1974, Travesties is the one which manages to squeeze avant-garde novelist James Joyce, DaDa godfather Tristan Tzara a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
New play from the National Youth Theatre is energetic and lively, but a bit unsettling in its portrayal of the poor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 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 05:30AM[SHARE]Friday, September 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 11:00AM[SHARE]New captive drama is well-written in a symbolic vein that helps to humanise the story behind the headlines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
History Boy Dominic Cooper triumphs as the Restoration rake Rochester in revival of 1994 biog drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Restoration theatre has the reputation of being a rake's paradise " all those randy young aristos in hot pursuit of buxom wenches. But even in the depths of 17th-century playwriting, there w…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
The metaphor of mountain climbing resonates with the crisis of masculinity in new sex-war drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:32AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
At its best, theatre is great at putting resonant metaphors on stage. And, as Elinor Cook's new play abundantly proves, the activity of mountain climbing seems very promising as a metaphor f…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:15PM[SHARE]Two actors share the roles of scholar and tempter in a pacy production that brilliantly conveys joy in transgression.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:33AM[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 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 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 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Revival of Pinter’s 1975 classic is a model of clarity, but raises questions about the validity of modernism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 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 05:05AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 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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