Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre
Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....
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 | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....
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Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
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One of the delights of London fringe theatre is its ability to nurture new talent. In this respect...
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Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
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At the age of 81, Caryl Churchill, Britain’s greatest living playwright, is still going strong....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Oct 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Once there were radically innovative playwrights; then came university courses about radically...
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In British plays of the postwar period, before the liberated 1960s, there is always an unresolved...
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Identity politics have been around for decades. But it’s always good to revisit the subject....
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The past can often hang like a nightmare on the present. And, in the case of Jewish identity, this...
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Rachel O’Riordan, the new artistic director of this Off-West End venue, has arrived with a program...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The Russian state murders dissidents not only in their homeland, but also in the UK. Recent cases...
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After six years, associate director Robert Icke bids farewell to the Almeida Theatre. In this...
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Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of America’s finest. In London, we are now catching up...
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Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is sometimes referred to as a silent illness. Typically, it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
For a while, child abuse was banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how...
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Few theatres have done as much to promote new young talent as the Royal Court; few theatres have...
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The best kind of two-hander is the play about couples. And the most dramatic way of saying...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Last month, Andrzej Lukowski, London Time Out’s theater editor, wrote a well-argued piece in The...
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