Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Isaac, stay with me. What you think you know, you do not know. There are no longer two genders. No longer simply a Y and X chromosome but an alphabet of genders. They call it the LBTTSQQIAA community. Or what I call the gender of Lugabuttsqueehah.” – Paige in Taylor Mac’s Hir.
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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.
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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.