“My Father’s Fable,” Bush Theatre
Following the huge success of Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, which transfers soon to the West End, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jun 2024 | Nigeria, Review, United Kingdom
Following the huge success of Benedict Lombe’s Shifters, which transfers soon to the West End, the...
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 Ademola Bello | 7th Jan 2023 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
The young playwright Jordan E. Cooper deserves kudos for writing the play Ain’t No Mo. He is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Mar 2022 | Directing, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jul 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Feb 2020 | Nigeria, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Titles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn’t it a bit...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Nov 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Because of the #MeToo movement, and the revival of feminist protest, the theme of sisterhood now...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Oct 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
There was once a time when grime music was very angry and very threatening, but that seems a long...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
In the same week that Arinzé Kene’s Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of...
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