“Sessions”, Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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 | 26th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Nov 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Nov 2021 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can’t be the only person to thrill to this play’s opening...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2021 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Religion, United Kingdom
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Sep 2021 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Sep 2021 | London, Review, United Kingdom
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Aug 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. I thought I needed some extra strength. And it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jul 2021 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There’s something definitely inspiring about producer Sonia Friedman’s decision to reopen one of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Jun 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
With many theatres now reopening again, it is surely a good moment to celebrate all those venues...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Jun 2021 | Review, United Kingdom
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigor of other companies is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jun 2021 | Review, United Kingdom
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jun 2021 | Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jun 2021 | London, Review, United Kingdom
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th May 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani’s one-woman...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th May 2021 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
The camera can take you to places where the naked eye rarely goes. Like close. Very close. Close...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Apr 2021 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Over the past year we’ve become used to a variety of home theatre: recordings of live...
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