The Bounds, Royal Court
Every day this week I’m watching a football match, and now — after April’s production of Lydia...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Jul 2024 | Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
Every day this week I’m watching a football match, and now — after April’s production of Lydia...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 5th Nov 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom
We’ve all heard of the male gaze, but what about its subversion? Overturning masculine dominance...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jun 2023 | London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Last Saturday, I went to the Excelsior Studios in Park Royal to see a performance of the Russell...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Apr 2023 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Some plays are instantly forgettable, others leave a tender fold in the memory. I well remember...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
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 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 | 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 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 Aleks Sierz | 18th Jul 2022 | Directing, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Is gig theater the latest sugar rush? Okay, it ups the brain’s serotonin levels and charges around...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Apr 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved?...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Apr 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
You can’t keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning stage plays, such as...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Mar 2022 | Acting, Directing, London, Review, United Kingdom
Let’s start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Feb 2022 | Directing, London, Management, Review, United Kingdom
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...
Read MorePosted 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...
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 | 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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