Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“Are you familiar with Virgil, Father? More and more I find myself, up in the wee hours, sharing a drop of Bushmills with the Ancients. The Aeneid. Book Six. In which our hero ventures to the Underworld, and crossing over the River Styx, spies a crowd of people on the far bank?” Uncle Pat in Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman.
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.
