Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Quote of the day: “I once saw an elderly man looking at a swing-bin in a hardware shop; it looked like he’d never bought a swing-bin in his life, someone else had always bought the swing-bin but that someone else wasn’t there any more. He had to buy the swing-bin. The play is kind of about that. And shoes. It’s also about shoes.” – Ian Kershaw’s ‘Author’s Note’ to his The Greatest Play in the History of the World
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.
