“Superhoe” at The Royal Court: Nicôle Lecky’s One-Woman Debut
Titles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn’t it a bit...
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 Mayra Ortiz Rodríguez | 3rd Mar 2019 | Argentina, Playwriting, Review
Traditional literary analysis has focused on a tripartite division of genres as if they were...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Oct 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Ah. Fear of flying. Yes, this is instantly recognizable: that sense that being propelled through...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Sep 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
A couple of nights ago, I went, for the first time, to the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, which is...
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 | 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 Colin Hambrook | 8th Mar 2018 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Conceived and directed by Rachel Bagshaw and written by Chris Thorpe, The Shape of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Mar 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Whatever the weather, this week is Frozen. On Broadway, the Disney musical of that name begins...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Feb 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare’s...
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 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 | 29th Dec 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Is Britain’s welfare system unfit for purpose? Well, all the news channels seem to suggest that...
Read MorePosted by Jack Wernick | 21st Jun 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Cost of Living is a vital new play from Polish-American playwright Martyna Majok. Following an...
Read MorePosted by Alfonso Vázquez | 5th Mar 2017 | Spain, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
Stefano Massini’s A Stubborn Woman, recreates the figure of Russian journalist Anna Politkóvskaya....
Read MorePosted by David Chisholm | 22nd Oct 2015 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Last night, The Experiment – of which I’m part – opened at the Melbourne Festival. The story of...
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