Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Favourite stage direction: “The stage is empty except for two actors and two microphones and a vast array of brightly-coloured plastic guns. The kind of guns with tactile plastic buttons that go/ pow pow pow pow pow/ kapow pow pow pow/ br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-boom/ when you press them. So you like to press them.” – Nina Segal’s Big Guns.
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.
