“Wise Children” at York Theatre Royal
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice’s Old Vic 2018 production...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice’s Old Vic 2018 production...
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No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The Russian state murders dissidents not only in their homeland, but also in the UK. Recent cases...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Superstar Sally Field has come to town. With two academy awards and countless other accolades, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
There are few subjects as emotionally fraught as the relationship between childhood and death. How...
Read MorePosted by Holly Williams | 4th Jun 2018 | Adaptation, Interview, United Kingdom
So what attracted you to the multimillion-selling novel The Girl On The Train? That could be my...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd May 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Joe Penhall and the music biz? Well, they have history. When he was writing the book...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Feb 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn basically comes in two flavors: suburban comedies of embarrassment and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Welcome back, John Boyega. Less than a decade ago, he was an unknown budding British stage actor,...
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