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‘Disturbing, moving & eloquent in its brilliant advocacy’: TYPICAL – Soho Theatre (Online theatre)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz28th February 2021Leave a Comment

Typical, a film version of a powerfully poetic and painful 2019 monologue about institutional racism, is brilliant.

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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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‘Reminds us that we can handle our obstacles’: SPARK – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Scotland by Laura Kressly13th August 2018Leave a Comment

Using the word ‘strong’ to describe women and girls is redundant. Putting up with all the trash that women have to deal with as a result of their gender, on top of everything else life throws at them, makes them strong by default.

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‘Seems strangely prophetic in Brexit Britain’: EAST – King’s Head Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz20th January 2018Leave a Comment

This lively revival of Steven Berkoff’s 1975 modern classic is energetically sweaty, if a bit messy as well.

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HEATHER – Bush Theatre

In Books, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz4th November 2017Leave a Comment

Harry Potter satire burns bright — new play about storytelling examines a children’s book craze.

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Text of the Day: Touch

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz15th August 2017Leave 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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MY COUNTRY; A WORK IN PROGRESS – Touring

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly22nd June 2017Leave a Comment

Unfortunately, it’s a pretty terrible piece of theatre. The primarily verbatim script is the worst of racist Brexit voters pontificating on political issues interspersed with extracts of speeches by the likes of Michael Gove, Boris, David Cameron and Nigel Farage.

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AN OCTOROON – Orange Tree Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th May 2017Leave a Comment

This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon is the most intelligent and most theatre-savvy play on today’s London stage: it is a satire on staging race, an account of black identity, a criticism of plantation life, a celebration of genre fun and a tribute to a forgotten work from the Victorian era.

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Text of the Day: Winter Solstice

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz27th January 2017Leave 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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US/THEM – National Theatre

In Children's theatre, Edinburgh Festival, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz23rd January 2017Leave a Comment

How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic or too matter-of-factly journalistic? Maybe an oblique approach is the answer.

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Howard Barker’s play doesn’t drase minorities, The Print Room Does

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Laura Kressly17th January 2017Leave a Comment

As The Print Room’s controversially cast production of Howard Barker’s In the Depths of Love opens this week, here’s a guest contribution from Daniel York.

An industry-wide new year’s resolution: Open letter to the Print Room

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Sticky by Laura Kressly3rd January 2017Leave a Comment

An industry making resolutions? Now that’s something I can get behind – people working together for a common goal is what theatre is about, on a microcosmic level anyway, and more unity is surely a good thing in a world becoming increasingly polarised.

Catastrophic casting: Scenes from a Yellowface Execution

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly19th December 2016Leave a Comment

It’s doubly ironic that in post-referendum, post-truth Brexit Britain, we’ve spent the last few months being told that you simply cannot call people stupid or racist. We don’t actually have to be stupid to do stupid things and we’re all perfectly capable of perpetuating systemic racism without actually being consciously racist.

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Catastrophic casting: Scenes from a Yellowface Execution

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly19th December 2016Leave a Comment

It’s doubly ironic that in post-referendum, post-truth Brexit Britain, we’ve spent the last few months being told that you simply cannot call people stupid or racist. We don’t actually have to be stupid to do stupid things and we’re all perfectly capable of perpetuating systemic racism without actually being consciously racist.

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Text of the Day: The Royale

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz22nd 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.

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THE ROYALE – The Tabernacle

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz9th November 2016Leave a Comment

Welcome return of last year’s American hit boxing drama, which is thrilling if a bit hard to follow.

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COUNTING STARS – Theatre Royal Stratford East

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz2nd September 2016Leave a Comment

New two-hander about love and exploitation offers a powerful image of racism and injustice.

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Text of the Day: Love, Bombs and Apples

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz26th June 2016Leave 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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BLUE/ORANGE – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz22nd May 2016Leave a Comment

Ace! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superbly staged and brilliantly performed… Each exchange is like a duel, and each duel is humorous as well as deadly serious. By the end of the evening, you feel as if the sparks have flown in all directions. And some have burnt your brain.

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CYPRUS AVENUE – Royal Court Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz25th April 2016Leave a Comment

New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence.

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