View Post A DAY BY THE SEA – Southwark Playhouse In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz9th October 2017Leave a Comment Classic 1953 play by the English Chekhov is fascinating, but rather dated in its values and too clumsy in its production.
View Post Text of the Day: Emma Rice on Shakespeare In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz1st November 2016Leave a Comment Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
View Post FURY – Soho Theatre In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz19th July 2016Leave a Comment New drama about a desperate single mother is powerfully written and raises some disturbing issues.
View Post Fact of the Day: London theatre dominance In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz18th May 2016Leave a Comment Fact of the day: London staged 22 per cent of all theatre shows in England in 2014, up from 19 per cent in 2013.
View Post DOCTOR FAUSTUS – West End In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th April 2016Leave a Comment Game of Thrones celebrity casting can’t save a misconceived, vulgarly populist updating of this Renaissance classic.
View Post Text of the Day: Peter Brook on Shakespeare In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz1st March 2016Leave a Comment Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
View Post Text of the Day: The Encounter In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz22nd February 2016Leave a Comment Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
View Post Text of the Day: Peter Brook on audiences In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz15th February 2016Leave a Comment Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
View Post Text of the Day: Nell Gwynn In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz13th February 2016Leave a Comment Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
View Post HERE WE GO – National Theatre In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz3rd January 2016Leave a Comment Latest short from the fab Caryl Churchill is a surprisingly intense and uncomfortable play about death, reviewed on the last night of its short season at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre.
