Brief Notes Towards A Definition Of Leftfield Theatre
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Feb 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Caryl Churchill, Britain’s best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
If British theatre often seems to lack ambition, the same cannot be said of The Half God Of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Every fairy tale is a cauldron of emotion. These are tales that steam with resentments flare-up in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Blackout. Dark, the color of childhood fear. Black, the color of despair. Black. No light visible;...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There’s a whole universe which British theatre has yet to explore properly—it’s called the sci-fi...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Apr 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Every great playwright has to have both an identifiable style and the ability to innovate and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
How can you represent trauma in the theatre? Let’s count the ways: the naturalistic way tells a...
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