Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“It’s a crisis, really/Imagine, the British colonising/a place without a river!/But we did get bonus points/for the tip of a land point/that pokes into Iran and/controls sea access from the Persian Gulf/to the Gulf of Oman/to the Arabian Sea straight to India.” – Amalah in Sabrina Mahfouz’s A History of Water in the Middle East
Aleks Sierz FRSA is a theatre critic, and author of the seminal study of new 1990s playwrights, In-Yer-Face Theatre. His other books include Rewriting the Nation, The Theatre of Martin Crimp, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights and Modern British Playwriting. His latest book (co-authored with Lia Ghilardi) is The Time Traveller’s Guide to British Theatre. He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, and lecturer. Aleks blogs independently at www.sierz.co.uk and tweets at @alekssierz.
