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“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2020 | Essay, London, United Kingdom
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2019 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2019 | Belgium, Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Since their first understated but instantly successful visit to Edinburgh in 2008 with their...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Pain. A world of pain. Pain. For anyone suffering from a rare condition called Complex Regional...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Nov 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Sometimes, just sometimes, I see a show which makes me wish that all theatre could be like this. A...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Oct 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, Scotland, United Kingdom
English-born and Scottish-based playwright Jo Clifford has been an astonishingly energetic and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Aug 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling, it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th May 2018 | Acting, London, Review, United Kingdom
In the 2000s one of the many glories of new writing for British stages was the linguistically...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Last night, I went to the King’s Head Theatre to see Martin Murphy’s hugely enjoyable Victim, a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Monologues are increasingly popular in contemporary British theatre. In an age of austerity, they...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Feb 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Do boys never leave the playground? Just when I was reasonably sure that the crisis of masculinity...
Read MorePosted by Kenneth Wardrop and Anna Leask | 7th Aug 2016 | Essay, Festivals, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Edinburgh Festival is upon us again, a three-week spectacular that turns the Scottish capital...
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