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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Blue/Orange, Young Vic by Aleks Sierz

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…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PM[SHARE]

MONSTER RAVING LOONY " Soho Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Screaming Lord Sutch biog-play is raucously entertaining, but rather superficial and thin on content.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:22AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Fact of the Day: London theatre dominance by Aleks Sierz

Fact of the day: London staged 22 per cent of all theatre shows in England in 2014, up from 19 per cent in 2013.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Monster Raving Loony, Soho Theatre by Aleks Sierz

The sense of humour is a funny thing. It raises questions about whether what we find funny can tells us anything about who we are, or what we might become. The case of Screaming Lord Sutch, …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54PM[SHARE]

Text of the Day: Lawrence After Arabia by Aleks Sierz

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 03:30AM[SHARE]
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Text of the Day: Boy by Aleks Sierz

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 06:20AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

THE LOCAL STIGMATIC " Old Red Lion Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Rare anniversary revival of Heathcote Williams’s 1966 short is very powerful, if a bit too shouty in parts.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:11AM[SHARE]

Text of the Day: Elegy by Aleks Sierz

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 05:36AM[SHARE]
Monday, May 9, 2016

LAWRENCE AFTER ARABIA " Hampstead Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

Lawrence After Arabia, Hampstead Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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]

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT " Touring by Aleks Sierz

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

Text of the Day: Doctor Faustus by Aleks Sierz

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

Text of the Day: X by Aleks Sierz

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]

Text of the Day: Bill Bryson on Shakespeare by Aleks Sierz

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

ELEGY " Donmar Warehouse by Aleks Sierz

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]

Text of the Day: My Mother Said I Never Should by Aleks Sierz

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

Elegy, Donmar Warehouse by Aleks Sierz

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]

THE BRINK " Orange Tree Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

DOCTOR FAUSTUS " West End by Aleks Sierz

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

BOY " Almeida Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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]

CYPRUS AVENUE " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

Text of the Day: Another World by Aleks Sierz

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]

X " Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD " St James Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

My Mother Said I Never Should, St James Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

ANOTHER WORLD: Losing Our Children to Islamic State " National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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]

THE CARETAKER " Old Vic Theatre by Aleks Sierz

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

Text of the Day: The Caretaker by Aleks Sierz

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

Text of the Day: Raz by Aleks Sierz

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

Quote of the Month: Patsy Rodenburg on Shakespeare by Aleks Sierz

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]

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