“The Retreat” at The Park Theatre
Is Buddhism a path to finding spiritual enlightenment — or just an excuse for not facing your...
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 | 19th Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Is Buddhism a path to finding spiritual enlightenment — or just an excuse for not facing your...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Given the rather uneven record of the National Theatre at the moment, there’s already a certain...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Some site-specific theatre feels like a really good fit. You could say, in this case, that it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
In Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo (1943), there’s a typically didactic exchange: Andrea, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Prolific writer Mike Bartlett is the most impressive penman to have emerged in British theatre in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Oct 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
A new baby is like an alien invasion: it blows your mind and it colonizes your world. For any...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
What does it mean to feel contemporary? Feel. Contemporary. Really feel. According to...
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Playwright Simon Stephens and director Marianne Elliott are hyped as a winning partnership. Their...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, London, Review, United Kingdom
Some plays would now be completely forgotten if not for a scandal that makes them memorable. NC...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Jane Eyre is one of those mythical stories that make their home in your imagination. Where they...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The black cab is such an iconic symbol of London that it’s easy to forget that inside every taxi...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Oct 2017 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The family celebration drama is a genre that had its heyday in the 1960s when social mobility made...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anyone who likes playing “Spot the weirdo” will find themselves instantly at home in Howard...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Sep 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Some legendary plays are a disappointment when you see them again — they don’t live up to the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Sep 2017 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Gandhi has a lot to answer for. I don’t mean the saintly campaigner for Indian independence, who...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Aug 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Fifty years ago this month, playwright Joe Orton was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. His...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Aug 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Another plague is sweeping British theatre: audience participation. Instead of just sitting back...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Aug 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Aug 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The 1960s were “hilarious,” says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Aug 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
Fleabag was such a massive hit, both on stage and on the box, that it is inevitable that anyone...
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