Anniversary revival of Joe Orton’s black farce about money and death is a delight from start to finish.
BORDERS IN A BEDROOM – Tristan Bates Theatre
Directed by Celine Rosenthal, Borders in a Bedroom is a short and slender work, but the playwright shows great promise.
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
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?
Video of the Week: The Kite Runner actors respond to Donald Trump
The company of The Kite Runner have started a nightly curtain-call ritual, reading out a response to US President Donald Trump’s executive order this past week banning Syrian refugees as well as all immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Worth watching and sharing.
COUNTING STARS – Theatre Royal Stratford East
New two-hander about love and exploitation offers a powerful image of racism and injustice.
SCREENS – Theatre 503
New play about personal identity and the digital world is strongly felt, but a bit too short.
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.
LOVE, BOMBS & APPLES – Arcola Theatre & touring
Collection of four monologues is free-thinkingly transgressive, politically incorrect and thoroughly delightful.
LOVE N STUFF – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Delightful two-hander is a comedy about married life and the truth of parenthood that is both funny and wise.
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.