Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
“It’s the 1950s — the decade I was born — and Roland Barthes pictures the Writer on Holiday with the maximum affection and contempt. The Writer is in his blue pyjamas — travelling — forgive me— I don’t have the book in front of me — but travelling, I believe, along the Nile or is it the Congo river — dressed in his blue pyjamas but still writing — since the Writer, says Barthes, is unable not to write — every moment, says Barthes, for the Writer is a moment of writing — writing can’t stop — even on holiday…”
– Martin Crimp’s ‘The Writer on Holiday’
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.
