Shaina Taub’s “Twelfth Night” At The Young Vic
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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 | 13th Oct 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
If music be the food of fun, play on! In fact, give me excess of it, surfeit even. If this is how...
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Whatever you might think about Brexit, the dreaded B word, the current climate certainly seems to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Oct 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It’s all about the casting. The paradox of playwright Sarah Kane’s short career is that while her...
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Since Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was first published in 1925 its reputation as a brilliant...
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There was once a time when grime music was very angry and very threatening, but that seems a long...
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Holy shit! After being closed for two long years, the old and battered Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn...
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Is appearing in the West End a rite of passage for Game Of Thrones stars? In the past couple of...
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A couple of nights ago, I went, for the first time, to the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, which is...
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Theatre 503 is a small underfunded fringe venue, but it’s one of the most important nurseries of...
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With Prime Minister Theresa May visiting Nigeria last week, trying to stump up some post-Brexit...
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The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling, it...
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Nostalgia used to be a disease, but now it’s a lifestyle choice. Look around you: British reality...
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Chekhovian is a rather over-used word when it comes to describing some of the late Brian Friel’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Royal Court theatre, which proudly boast of being “a leading force in world theatre for...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The NHS is us. For decades our national identity has been bandaged together with the idea, and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
There are few subjects as emotionally fraught as the relationship between childhood and death. How...
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Images are what make abstract crises concrete. And who can forget the image of the bankrupt Lehman...
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Britain is rightly proud of its record on multiculturalism, but whenever cross-cultural couples...
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History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
We are now pretty familiar with the idea that human reproduction (making babies) has been turned...
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