Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Because this new play would be written for that medium of voice, the radio, in reaching for an authentic register I soon found myself drawn towards a form of verse drama — a series of rhythmically driven dramatic monologues underpinned by internal and line end rhyme and half-rhyme. At the time of the first draft this choice was very much instinctive.”
– Owen Sheers’ ‘Author’s Note’ to Pink Mist at the Bush 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.
