“Three Sisters,” National Theatre
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Nigeria, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 5th Jan 2023 | Interview, Ireland, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom, United States of America
It was a chance meeting at MoMA’s dance series “Some sweet day” that brought Ingrid Nachstern and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Religion, United Kingdom
Pain is, at one and the same time, something to avoid, and also something you can use. Kahlil...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Dec 2022 | Directing, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is British new writing in deep trouble? With the Arts Council defunding venues such as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Dec 2022 | Israel, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 8th Dec 2022 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 2nd Dec 2022 | London, News, Playwriting, Translation, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Nov 2022 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose...
Read MorePosted by Grace J. Ioppolo | 27th Nov 2022 | Books, Education, Essay, United Kingdom
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2022 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
Last night, at the Arcola, I witnessed the return of The Poltergeist, Philip Ridley’s blazing...
Read MorePosted by Orlaith Darling | 20th Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Essay, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Nov 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Every day there is bad news about the NHS — junior doctors are exhausted, nurses need food banks...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Nov 2022 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom
The fictional world is our world, but at the same time it’s another place; likewise, the digital...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Nov 2022 | Documentary Theatre, London, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of...
Read MorePosted by Tom Cornford | 17th Oct 2022 | Directing, Essay, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Since 2015, a large bronze statue has stood outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Raised on a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Sep 2022 | London, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some...
Read MorePosted by James Layton | 18th Sep 2022 | Applied Theatre, Education, Essay, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
Suicide is the second highest cause of death in 15-to-29-year-olds around the world, according to...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Sep 2022 | Adaptation, Design, London, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom
‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of...
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