“Holy Shit” at The Kiln Theatre
Holy shit! After being closed for two long years, the old and battered Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn...
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 | 2nd Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Holy shit! After being closed for two long years, the old and battered Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn...
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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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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...
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We are now pretty familiar with the idea that human reproduction (making babies) has been turned...
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Actor Aidan Turner, who plays the Cornish land-owner Poldark in the hit BBC series of that name,...
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