About “Living Newspaper”: A Counter Narrative
Read all about it! Well, maybe not. Maybe more like: live the news and then watch it streamed....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2021 | Acting, Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom
Read all about it! Well, maybe not. Maybe more like: live the news and then watch it streamed....
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 15th Dec 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
This Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 31st Oct 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
“Wily, slippery thing.” “Spiky little animal.” “One long nightmare.” These are the phrases that...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...
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 | 23rd Jan 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Mark Ravenhill, who shot to fame in 1996 with his in-yer-face shocker Shopping And...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Royal Court theatre, which proudly boast of being “a leading force in world theatre for...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
The late Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee is a punk classic. I think he was in his Fellini phase,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Feb 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
First the goats, and now the sheep—has this venue become an urban farm? Rural life, which was once...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
What a brilliant title! Yes, this one must be up there with the likes of Jim Cartwright’s I Licked...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Sep 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Some legendary plays are a disappointment when you see them again — they don’t live up to the...
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