Monday, May 9, 2016
Howard Brenton’s new study of desert warrior T E Lawrence is more like a frustrating mirage than a nourishing oasis.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
There's something endlessly fascinating about T E Lawrence. In popular culture, he has been immortalised by Peter O'Toole's dazzlingly blue-eyed performance in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PM[SHARE]Classic adaptation of the Graham Greene story is warm-hearted and entertaining, but also stuck in the past.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 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 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 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 02:00PM[SHARE]Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk. Here's the Quote of the month...The post Bill Bryson on Shake…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:16AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
New one from Nick Payne explores brain science and female relationships, but is just a bit too superficial.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:23AM[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 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Playwright Nick Payne has carved out a distinctive dramatic territory " neuroscience. In his big 2012 hit, Constellations, he explored the effect on memory of living with a brain tumour, whi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PM[SHARE]One man’s psychological problems make for a powerful thriller that digs deep into our current anxieties.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Game of Thrones celebrity casting can’t save a misconceived, vulgarly populist updating of this Renaissance classic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
New play about a lost teenage youth has an impressive production, but is thin on plot and character.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 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 12:04PM[SHARE]Alistair McDowall’s follow up to his big 2014 hit Pomona is less dazzling, but more emotionally desolate and ambiguous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Spirited revival of the 1980s feminist classic is a bit too shrill, yet also quietly moving when it matters.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
Charlotte Keatley's 1987 feminist classic is one of the most often performed plays by a woman writer. It is typical of its time in that this story of four generations of women in one family …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
Why do young British Muslims go to join the so-called Islamic State? Since the entire media has been grappling with this question for ages now, it is a bit puzzling to see our flagship Natio…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:14PM[SHARE]Atmospheric revival of Harold Pinter’s psychological drama is too long and too elaborate to be genuinely moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 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 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 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 06:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 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 08:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. But although his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bells Tolls, is familiar as a classic account of the Spanish Civil War…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PM[SHARE]Quebec drama about a young mother's disintegrating sense of self is brilliantly strange and inspiring.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Poor Alice. She's alone all day, with a six-month baby boy, while her husband Ben " a doctor " is out at work. Working all hours. She sleeps at odd times of the day, and at first seems to ha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 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 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
Jim Cartwright returns with a high-octane monologue about a night out, but has nothing to say beyond the banal.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
Recently, I've been meeting some pretty hyper people in the theatre. Fictional people. On stage. Lots of hyper women; lots of hyper agonised women. And men. Hypercative kids; hyped-up teens;…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2016
Powerful new play about a terror attack on London has strong passages, but is a bit too frantically humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
Monologue about an acute manic-depressive episode is both vividly experiential and unforgettably informative.
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