“Pressure” at The Park Theatre: New Play on D-Day
There are few things more British than talking about the weather. What makes this play about a...
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 | 23rd Apr 2018 | Acting, Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
There are few things more British than talking about the weather. What makes this play about a...
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Let us have a quick moan about repertoire. You know, the types of plays that most of our theatres...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Many years ago, your time at school might even have been some of the happiest days of your...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Last night, I went to the King’s Head Theatre to see Martin Murphy’s hugely enjoyable Victim, a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Apr 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Every great playwright has to have both an identifiable style and the ability to innovate and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Apr 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Love may well be the strongest four-letter word, but what is the latest news from the front line...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at representing the stories of Chinese...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
In the same week that Arinzé Kene’s Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Good programming is an art, and Paul Miller—artistic director at this venue—is clearly on a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
How can you represent trauma in the theatre? Let’s count the ways: the naturalistic way tells a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Mar 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is it possible to get too much of American politics? With Donald Trump’s daily tweets invading our...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
The late Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee is a punk classic. I think he was in his Fellini phase,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Electra is the protagonist in two Ancient Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and the other by...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. In an age of austerity cuts, and at a time when most...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Whatever the weather, this week is Frozen. On Broadway, the Disney musical of that name begins...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
First the goats, and now the sheep—has this venue become an urban farm? Rural life, which was once...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Monologues are increasingly popular in contemporary British theatre. In an age of austerity, they...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Feb 2018 | Immersive Theatre, London, Review
“Two things only the people anxiously desire—bread and circuses,” said the Roman poet Juvenal. He...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Feb 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Do boys never leave the playground? Just when I was reasonably sure that the crisis of masculinity...
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