“The Glow,” Royal Court
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others...
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 | 1st Feb 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others...
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History is a prison. Often, you can’t escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and...
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The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Jan 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jan 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Dec 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
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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...
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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...
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