Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“A halfwit with an unloaded gun? Not much of an assassin, was he? Anyone’d think someone put him up to it. Just cos the cunts up top might be stupid enough to believe their own lies don’t mean we have to, eh lads?” – Davy in Anders Lustgarten’s The Secret Theatre
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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.
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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.