Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...
Read MoreAleks Sierz FRSA is a British theatre critic. He is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), The Theatre of Martin Crimp (Methuen, 2006), John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008) and Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today (Methuen, 2011). He has also written, co-authored with Lia Ghilardi, The Time Traveller’s Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years (Oberon, 2015). His latest book is Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre 1940–2015 (Methuen, 2019). Sierz has written for publications including Tribune, The Arts Desk and The Stage, as well as newspapers such as The Independent.
Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...
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It’s election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But,...
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We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded...
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It’s a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier’s West End debut is his production...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2024 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, Uruguay
Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...
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Jane Austen is not just a classic novelist — she’s a cultural institution and a national treasure....
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This transfer of Jack Thorne’s hit National Theatre play to the West End has been hailed as...
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The recent news that Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the “international LGBT movement”,...
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We’ve all heard of the male gaze, but what about its subversion? Overturning masculine dominance...
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Multiculturalism, according to the Home Secretary, has failed, so where does that leave British...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2023 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Famous sex scandals don’t always make good plays. Although the tabloid nature of such events...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2023 | Adaptation, Books, London, Review, United Kingdom
Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2023 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which...
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Androids no longer dream of electric sheep — instead they inhabit our dreams. Whether it is novels...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Sep 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Sep 2023 | Review, United Kingdom
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Okay, let’s start with a definition: it is said that sex is what you have between your legs, and...
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