Mark Ravenhill’s “Angela” on The Sound Stage
Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might,...
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 | 24th Apr 2021 | Review, Scotland, Theatre and Age, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might,...
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As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Feb 2021 | Covid-19, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
Film is the new theatre — this we know, but does the distance imposed by the change of medium...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2021 | Acting, Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom
Read all about it! Well, maybe not. Maybe more like: live the news and then watch it streamed....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Jan 2021 | Playwriting, United Kingdom
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) “It started with a slight cough, a rather dry...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Jan 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Last week I watched Sarah Grochala’s award-winning short play, S-27, now streaming from the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Dec 2020 | London, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Yesterday, I watched the streamed version of December, written and directed by Alexander Knott,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Dec 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A couple of days ago I watched the live stream of Misfits, from the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Dec 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A Christmas Carol is a seasonal standard. In a normal year, there are a couple of versions to be...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Dec 2020 | Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom
Okay, COVID-19 really sucks. This play opened and closed on the same night, 4 November, as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Dec 2020 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Classical murder mysteries end with a neat solution — and with the arrest of the perpetrator....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Nov 2020 | Review, Theatre and Religion, United Kingdom
Today, I watched the first episode in the Tools for Change trilogy, digital reimaginings of three...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Nov 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Philip Ridley has had a very productive lockdown. Despite the constraints of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2020 | Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom
Success smells sweet. The Bridge Theatre’s pioneering season of one-person plays continues with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Oct 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
When the history of British theatre’s response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Oct 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
Do you know the Urdu word for story? No? Well, look it up. Okay, this might prove a bit tricky, so...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Aug 2020 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
During the current pandemic, stories about isolation have a particular resonance. Feelings of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Aug 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The strength of the response to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign has encouraged...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Aug 2020 | Devised Theatre, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Can the act of dusting be a metaphor? This is the all-too-obvious question that jumps into the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jul 2020 | Essay, United Kingdom
This is the age of marketing, not the age of criticism. To give an example, I’ll start with a...
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