“Instructions For American Servicemen In Britain” Is A Humorous Collection Of Sketches
We’re familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad’s Army, gamely tramping down the...
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 | 17th Jul 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
We’re familiar, perhaps too familiar, with the image of Dad’s Army, gamely tramping down the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Jul 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Surrogacy is an emotionally fraught subject. And one that is pregnant with meaning. The...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jul 2017 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The recent general election result proves that the power of the rightwing press has diminished...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jun 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Ponyboy Curtis are a cult phenomenon. Chris Goode’s queer performance collective has won plaudits...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jun 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Dorothy Parker’s take on suicide is called “Resumé”: it goes, “Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jun 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Disability
London fringe theatre is underfunded and under-resourced, but it often produces work that is more...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
History is a tricky harlot. She is bought and sold, fought for and thrown over, seduced and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Jun 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In this general election, the intergenerational conflict between youth and old age is never far...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th May 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon at the Orange Tree...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Welcome back, John Boyega. Less than a decade ago, he was an unknown budding British stage actor,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th May 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Is God female? It says a lot about Yaël Farber’s pompous and overblown new version of this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th May 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
I hate the kind of hype that sells out a new play within minutes of tickets becoming available....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th May 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Text can sometimes be a prison. At its best, postwar British theatre is a writer’s theatre, with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th May 2017 | Review, Romania, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In the growing xenophobic atmosphere of Brexit it is a relief to see a show from Europe, to get a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Martin Crimp’s 1993 satirical epic, The Treatment, is a fabulous work, but it’s rarely...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Apr 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Duncan Macmillan has had a good couple of years. In 2015, his play People, Places and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Apr 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The idea of the plague has a powerful metaphorical aura. Antonin Artaud used it in his seminal...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It’s hot. Real hot. And you’re dancing, just lost in music. You’re at the legendary Shrine...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
One good reason to visit the theatre is to see stars in the flesh. And some of the biggest celebs...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Apr 2017 | Review, United Kingdom
The Bush is back! After a whole year of darkness, the West London new writing venue has reopened...
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