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‘Perhaps something genuinely new in theatre:’ THE TIME MACHINE – Creation Theatre (Online review)

In Featured Shows, Native, Online shows, Reviews by Darren Ross25th June 2020

So bizarre and unlikely is the story behind the creation of this play that one wonders whether writer Jonathan Holloway has time-travelled himself!

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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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‘There’s no denying the play’s relevance’: THE PHLEBOTOMIST – Hampstead Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz28th March 2019Leave a Comment

Ella Road’s resonant new play about genetics, The Phlebotomist, is mostly well-written and gets an exciting staging.

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‘All futuristic dystopias are commentaries on the present’: #TheDivide @oldvictheatre

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Aleks Sierz9th February 2018Leave a Comment

Alan Ayckbourn’s epic, very, very long satire on religion and sexual segregation prefers comedy to tragedy.

DISCONNECT – Ugly Duck

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly15th May 2017Leave a Comment

Imagine a production of Waiting for Godot with more characters, set in space, where the audience chooses the outcome of the story. What you are picturing is probably gloriously weird and kitschy.

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KILLER – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz2nd March 2017Leave a Comment

One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he came at theatre from leftfield. In the 1980s, he didn’t go to drama school — he went to art college instead. This freed his mind from following established theatre conventions, and so anything was possible.

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KILLER – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz28th February 2017Leave a Comment

Latest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.

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SPACE PLAY – Vault Festival

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly1st February 2017Leave a Comment

In recent years, tales of space travel have been making more of an appearance in theatre. Space Play looks at the aftermath of orbital collision with space debris, inspired by the events of the film Gravity.

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Text of the Day: Shopping & F***ing

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz19th October 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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SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD – Battersea Arts Centre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly17th October 2016Leave a Comment

Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth’s orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broadcast music to the devastation below. Can anyone hear him? Are there any survivors? Will he ever know?

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Text of the Day: Karagula

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz28th 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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KARAGULA – Styx

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz17th June 2016Leave a Comment

Philip Ridley’s latest is an ambitious fantasy epic whose scope and majesty will blow you clean away.

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Text of the Day: X

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Aleks Sierz3rd May 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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ELEGY – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz29th April 2016Leave a Comment

New one from Nick Payne explores brain science and female relationships, but is just a bit too superficial.

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X – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz21st April 2016Leave a Comment

Alistair McDowall’s follow up to his big 2014 hit Pomona is less dazzling, but more emotionally desolate and ambiguous.

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Favourite stage direction: “For most of the play Angie is the user interface of a computer system. At first we only hear her. Then we see her face like you would on FaceTime. These projections or sounds can come from anywhere onstage/in Merril’s office. They can live on her desktop monitor, or projected, or something more radical. The actor can pre-record Angie’s lines or perform them live. She does not ‘sound like a computer’. She is human. Also of note: The first ChatBot AI built in 1966 was a therapist named Eliza.” (Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology)

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