“The Claim” at The Shoreditch Town Hall
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you’re a political refugee, and, having...
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 | 4th Apr 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you’re a political refugee, and, having...
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Since 2000, Esther Baker’s Synergy Theatre Project has worked with prisoners, ex-offenders and...
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The idea of the perfect murder is a genre standard. The fantasy that you are so intellectually...
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Once radical theatre companies are increasingly celebrating anniversaries, as if to say, hey,...
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Caryl Churchill, Britain’s best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of...
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Your story. Our story. Their story. Just imagine: you’re a political refugee, and, having...
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Genetic engineering is in the news again. This follows the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as...
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Is this an angry island? Although the British national character (if there is such a thing) has...
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History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth...
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Last week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington’s Tower Theatre, whose company has since...
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No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel...
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“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
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Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon...
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Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble’s...
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Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It’s...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Feb 2020 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Do you hear the people sing? In recent months, you’re more likely to have heard news stories about...
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Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to...
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Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s,...
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The prolific Mike Bartlett — from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor...
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The 1990s were a great decade for new writing, but although the story of those years is often told...
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