Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Writers are the most important artists in the theatre world. They hold a clear, crooked, chaotic or glorious mirror up to humanity. It is through their imaginations that we are drawn into a deeper understanding of ourselves and are confronted with the moral, intellectual and spiritual questions of our age.”
– Rufus Norris’s ‘Foreword’ to Fraser Grace and Clare Bayley’s new book Playwriting: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion
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.
