Directed by Celine Rosenthal, Borders in a Bedroom is a short and slender work, but the playwright shows great promise.
BECOMING MOHAMMED – Pleasance Theatre
Becoming Mohammed, in its story of a young white man’s conversion to Islam and the subsequent familial negotiations of his journey, not only adds to the diversity on the London fringe but reframes the stigma against white, western Christians converting to Islam, and the inherently peaceful nature of the religion.
Text of the Day: Guards at the Taj
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
GUARDS AT THE TAJ – Bush Theatre
Epitomising opposing political viewpoints, the war between practical and aesthetic, emotional versus intellectual, and the disparity between social classes, the two characters each represent huge forces clashing within a coming-of-age story and a myth of the Taj’s history.
GUARDS AT THE TAJ – Bush Theatre
For its reopening, Younis has looked across the pond for a new play. He has chosen Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, which was first staged at the Atlantic Theatre, New York, in 2015, picking up an Obie Award along with other plaudits.
GUARDS AT THE TAJ – Bush Theatre
West London new writing venue reopens with an ethically troubling play about another architectural marvel.
GUARDS AT THE TAJ – Bush Theatre
West London new writing venue reopens with an ethically troubling play about another architectural marvel.
DON JUAN IN SOHO – West End
Updating the classics is not without its pitfalls. How can a modern audience, which has a completely different set of religious beliefs, relate to a 17th-century morality tale in which the lead character behaves badly, and I mean really badly, but gets his comeuppance by being roasted in hell fire?
THE COLLECTOR – Greenwich Theatre
When the British army arrived in Northern Ireland, beleaguered Catholics came onto the streets offering them tea, biscuits and cake. How long did it take for the story to change to the one that we know today?
OIL – Almeida Theatre
New epic about mothers and daughters in the age of oil is wonderfully ambitious, but deeply unhistorical.
GIRLS – Soho Theatre
New captive drama is well-written in a symbolic vein that helps to humanise the story behind the headlines.
Edinburgh Fringe: Who Is Tahirih?
A woman sings behind a gauzy white curtain. We cannot see her face, but in her soaring cries we hear her passion. This is Tahirih, born in what is now Iran in the early 1800’s.
Text of the Day: Love, Bombs and Apples
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text of the Day: Cuttin’ It
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
CUTTIN’ IT – Young Vic & touring
A powerful account of the realities of FGM is brilliantly written and superbly staged as an urgent piece of new writing.
ANOTHER WORLD: Losing Our Children to Islamic State – National Theatre
New verbatim play about the terror state is worthy, but completely unenlightening and sadly undramatic.