Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“By Year 10, me and Rachel were still friends but she weren’t my girl. The incident with the CRB brought me and Taiwo closer so I didn’t need a girlfriend any more after that. But we were still cool though, Rachel and I.” – Kehinde in Arinzé Kene’s Little Baby Jesus
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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.