Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Listen, the village, the town, the city is out there for the taking. Fame or infamy, it doesn’t matter, they are the only immortality available to man. To sin big is to rise above the mediocrity of the masses. Sin big. Sin famously.” – Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe and Colin Teevan’s Doctor Faustus at the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre
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.
