Martin McDonagh’s “The Lieutenant Of Inishmore” At The Noël Coward Theatre
Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...
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 | 7th Jul 2018 | London, Northern Ireland, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...
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It’s the stuff of nightmares. There’s a massive explosion, the sound of smashing glass, falling...
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Forget about dark alleys, deserted parks and slippery slopes: the most dangerous place in the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Miss Jean Brodie, the larger-than-life Edinburgh schoolteacher that strides through Muriel Spark’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jun 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Regular air travel is a hassle. All that queuing, all that security, all those hot halls, and then...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Masculinity, whether toxic or in crisis (but never ever problem-free), is a hardy perennial...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Playwright Martin Crimp began his career by writing surreal short plays that hinted at his love of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Jun 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Winsome Pinnock has for decades been a central figure in the promotion of BAME drama not just as a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2018 | Acting, London, Northern Ireland, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Since the Northern Irish playwright’s death in 2015, Brian Friel’s work is rarely sighted in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Barney Norris is as prolific as he is talented. Barely out of his twenties, he has...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Joe Penhall and the music biz? Well, they have history. When he was writing the book...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th May 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Neil McPherson, the long-serving head of this London fringe theatre, has a brilliant record of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th May 2018 | Acting, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is there such a thing as female writing? In the 1980s, a group of women writers emerged who...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th May 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The good news about so-called black drama on British stages is that it has broken out of its...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th May 2018 | Acting, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Rodney Ackland must be the most well-known forgotten man in postwar British theatre. His legend...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th May 2018 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
In the 2000s one of the many glories of new writing for British stages was the linguistically...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Anthony Neilson has always been fascinated by sex. I mean, who isn’t? But he has made...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The Orange Tree Theatre is a champion of new writing. Under artistic director Paul Miller, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There’s a whole universe which British theatre has yet to explore properly—it’s called the sci-fi...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
It’s been a golden week for James Graham, British theatre’s wonder boy. After winning an Olivier...
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