Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“That’s the hardest thing. Seeing someone you think loves you, who loves someone you hate. What can you do? Either believe they don’t really love you, cos they’re so stupid they can’t, or that love is real and the cunt you hate can also be loved.” – Casey in John O’Donovan’s If We Got Some More Cocaine…
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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.