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‘Plenty here to engage both mind & feelings’: OVERFLOW – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz15th December 2020Leave a Comment

Travis Alabanza’s play Overflow at the Bush Theatre is both tender in its empathy for the different kinds of trans experience and passionately angry about prejudice.

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‘Joseph Potter is more than a match for this quick-fire writing’: THE POLTERGEIST – Southwark Playhouse (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott24th November 2020Leave a Comment

Philip Ridley’s play The Poltergeist made an intimate transition to the screen and will be unmissable as soon as live performances can be scheduled.

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‘A tour de force performance in a brilliant monologue’: THE POLTERGEIST – Southwark Playhouse (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn21st November 2020Leave a Comment

A tour de force performance (mark Joseph Potter as one to watch) in a brilliant monologue on an empty stage, you will not want to miss Philip Ridley’s The Poltergeist.

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‘Blends wry reminiscence, personal experience, poetry & music’: AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT – Bridge Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz27th September 2020Leave a Comment

This is a masterly revival of An Evening with an Immigrant, Inua Ellams’ 2016 autobiographical one-man show which is both poetic and engaging.

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‘Hytner has envisaged both stories with considerable care’: THE SHRINE / BED AMONG THE LENTILS – Bridge Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott15th September 2020Leave a Comment

The Bridge Theatre’s most savvy decision is in teaming The Shrine with Bed Among the Lentils, placing together two of our finest actors who effortless and regularly transition between stage and screen – Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville.

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‘Pushes the envelope of the monologue genre’: DECLAN – The Actors Centre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman25th June 2020Leave a Comment

Jimbo is 12 and on the cusp of young adulthood. Both his body and his mind are confused about its identity and the world around him is not much help.

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‘Theatre is rarely so forceful or so urgent’: THE PROTEST – Bush Theatre

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz19th June 2020Leave a Comment

This venue’s urgent response to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign is powerfully realised.

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‘A real gem’: Philip Ridley’s online series The Beast Will Rise is ‘sublime storytelling’

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz11th June 2020Leave a Comment

The problem with creating theatre in an era of lockdown is that the constraints of working online tend towards a uniformity of creativity

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‘Philip Ridley’s masterly monologue explores the anxieties of our current culture of fear’: GATORS (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz12th April 2020Leave a Comment

Gloriously surreal monologue about everyday anxieties in extraordinary circumstances: welcome back the glittering dark!

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WATCH: Enter the world of Red Peter with the tense new trailer for the Vault Festival show

In Festivals, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Ticket recommendations, Video by Featured Content6th February 2020

Meet Red Peter, the character at the heart of the award-nominated Camden Fringe Festival hit, which returns to London for a March run at the VAULT Festival. Time to book your tickets!

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NEWS: Camden Fringe hit Red Peter returns to the London stage at Vault Festival

In Featured Shows, Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Ticket recommendations, Video by Featured Content15th January 2020

Grid Theatre’s acclaimed staging of Red Peter, an award-nominated hit at the 2019 Camden Fringe Festival, will head back to the capital later this spring for a short run at the VAULT Festival. Book your tickets now

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‘Enormous passion & frightening intensity’: BABY REINDEER – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz16th October 2019Leave a Comment

Baby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, stand-up comedian Richard Gadd’s provocative one-man show about a stalker and complicit victimhood, is darkly exciting.

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WATCH: Get a taste for Grid Theatre’s Red Peter with an excerpt from the Kafka adaptation

In Festivals, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays, Ticket recommendations, Video by Featured Content24th July 2019

“They are good people, despite everything that happened…” Have a sneak peek at what to expect from Red Peter, Grid Theatre’s adaptation of Kafka’s A Report to an Academy at Camden Fringe, then book your tickets.

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CAMDEN FRINGE NEWS: Civilisation is put in the spotlight in Kafka adaptation Red Peter

In Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content17th July 2019

Grid Theatre shines a spotlight on ideas of civilisation and humanity with Red Peter, the stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s A Report To An Academy, which runs as part of Camden Fringe next month. Book your tickets now!

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‘As a feminist reworking of Leigh’s original, this is just right’: ABI – Hornchurch

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Aleks Sierz7th September 2018Leave a Comment

Atiha Sen Gupta’s Abi, a 60-minute monologue, performed with enormous zest and attractive energy by Safiyya Ingar, is a response to Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party and looks at what happened to a couple of his peripheral characters.

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‘Rather slender but well put together & fun, fun, fun’: SILK ROAD (How to Buy Drugs Online) – Trafalgar Studios

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Aleks Sierz10th August 2018Leave a Comment

This West End revival of smart monologue about drug dealing on the Dark Web is well written if a bit slight.

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Text of the Day: Misty

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz9th April 2018Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

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‘Moving without being hysterical’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon11th March 2018Leave a Comment

Hennessy is a strong writer, it would be difficult to ruin her work. In Lucy Jane Atkinson’s vision of A Hundred Words For Snow, it is a lot more scaled back than at the Arcola and I found this to be a positive.

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‘Exceptional piece of work’: GOOD GIRL – Trafalgar Studios

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon8th March 2018Leave a Comment

Naomi Sheldon’s monologue Good Girl makes its way to West End after Fringe runs at the Old Red Lion and Vault Festival. It is an exceptional piece of work that has not only made me consider the power of monologue but what it feels like to be a woman.

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‘Delivers the goods with a punch in the gut’: ANGRY – Southwark Playhouse

In London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Aleks Sierz19th February 2018Leave a Comment

Watching Angry makes you feel as if you’ve downed several super-alcoholic drinks — and then rushed out into the freezing cold night, under the cold unfeeling stars. Yes, welcome to Ridleyland, a place of precarious uncertainty, full of comic missteps and grotesquerie.

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