Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jan 2025 | Covid-19, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Even the best streamed theatre can’t compete with the live version. It’s simple — with this art...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Oct 2024 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Jun 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The death of Marilyn Monroe, on 4 August 1962, is a wet dream for conspiracy theorists. Like the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sanaz Toossi’s English at the Kiln Theatre: Pulitzer Prize-winning play shows the impacts of a second language on identity
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is okay,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
When does creativity become mannered? When it’s based on repetition, and repetition without...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender
“Welcome to motherhood, bitch!” By the time a character delivers this reality check, there have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
It’s often said that contemporary American playwrights are too polite, too afraid of giving...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Mar 2024 | Germany, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s a sign of the times that German director Thomas Ostermeier’s West End debut is his production...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 19th Feb 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2024 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom, Uruguay
Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of commerce...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 4th Feb 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
“This play is a lie,” boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft’s new play A Mirror, now playing...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Jan 2024 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Jane Austen is not just a classic novelist — she’s a cultural institution and a national treasure....
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