Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Oh dear. I could have sworn I had a book about Irish playwright Brian Friel somewhere. But I can't find it. Or maybe I never bought it. Maybe I just thought I might have bought it. Maybe it'…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:34PM[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 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
A likeable and energetically acted satire on supermarkets is occasionally fun, but rather lacking in dramatic force.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 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 06:48AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
New play about a forgotten First World War poet stages both the passion of youth and the pity of war.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Mike Bartlett’s latest, inspired by the Edward Snowden affair, relies on a coup de theatre to get out of a stalled plot.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Collection of four monologues is free-thinkingly transgressive, politically incorrect and thoroughly delightful.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
Philip Ridley’s latest is an ambitious fantasy epic whose scope and majesty will blow you clean away.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
Polymath playwright Philip Ridley is endlessly inventive. Having written a couple of exciting pieces of bravura storytelling " Tender Napalm (2012) and Dark Vanilla Jungle (2014) " he went o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 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 10:21AM[SHARE]Monday, June 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 10:13AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
Terence Rattigan’s best play stars Helen McCrory in an uncertain production that attempts an emotional update.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 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 09:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
From being the Aunt Sally of contemporary British theatre, attacked by the angry young men in the 1950s and the new wave of social and political realists for three decades after that, playwr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:33PM[SHARE]Delightful two-hander is a comedy about married life and the truth of parenthood that is both funny and wise.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:17AM[SHARE]Monday, June 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 11:26AM[SHARE]Six veterans of both British and Argentinian armies feature in a disappointingly ultra-cool Falklands War drama.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
Like the 1956 Suez Crisis for a previous generation, the 1982 Falklands War (or should that be Islas Malvinas War?) was a turning point for all those who lived through the Thatcher decade. S…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:48PM[SHARE]Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern stars in a new play about Greece that is both intelligent and very enjoyable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 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 05:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Greece has had a bad press in recent years. A place that used to conjure up visions of lazy days on sun-soaked islands, with summer food and warm seas, now just reminds us of the migration c…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:58PM[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 08:31AM[SHARE]A powerful account of the realities of FGM is brilliantly written and superbly staged as an urgent piece of new writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, May 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 07:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
A short evening of satirical swipes at politicians, plotters and prophets is only fitfully funny and occasionally sharp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Is there any point to political satire? The great thing about the glory years of this genre in, say, the early 1960s was that the jokes punctured people's deepest held beliefs in a deferenti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06PM[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 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
As I sit down to write this, a crow is cawing outside my window while night falls; for an awkard moment I think it might be a raven, and this reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Is the black bird…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42PM[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 01:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2016
Ace! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superbly staged and brilliantly performed... Each exchange is like a duel, and each duel is humorous as well a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange is one of the best plays of the past two decades. First staged at the National Theatre in 2000, with the dream cast of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln and Bill Nig…
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