Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Writers’ Building in Calcutta is where the English clerks all sit, writing their tax demands that impoverish our people and where they legitimatise their strangle hold over us through their evil blood-sucking laws. Before the British Crown, it was the head quarters of the East India Company. It has a long and repellant history.” – Bimala in Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers.
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.
