Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“England! I am sick of the sound of the word. In training to fight for England, I am training to fight for deliberate hypocrisy, that terrible middle-class sloth of outlook. Yet we write down Germany as ‘Huns’. I think that after the war all brave men will renounce their country and confess that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
– Charlie in Neil McPherson’s It Is Easy To Be Dead at the Finborough 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.
