Learning To Listen, Struggling To Hear: Katie Mitchell’s “Cow / Deer”
There are directors who have gotten us accustomed to treading on unconventional paths. They have...
Read MorePosted by Savas Patsalidis | 2nd Jan 2026 | Directing, Greece, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom
There are directors who have gotten us accustomed to treading on unconventional paths. They have...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Oct 2025 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The Royal Court, Britain’s premiere new writing venue, celebrates its platinum anniversary next...
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Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is okay,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
When does creativity become mannered? When it’s based on repetition, and repetition without...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Readers who don’t think much of football won’t be surprised to hear that this tale of murder and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Jun 2023 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom
The summer season at the Royal Court, London’s premiere new writing venue, features two plays...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Feb 2023 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Ever been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo’s, or the Black Cap or Her...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Nov 2022 | Canada, Dramaturgy, Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom
The fictional world is our world, but at the same time it’s another place; likewise, the digital...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Apr 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Feb 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Dec 2021 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 13th Mar 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
“Would you rather have one shoe or no shoes?” Viv is here to show us that missing only one shoe is...
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 | 23rd Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
At the age of 81, Caryl Churchill, Britain’s greatest living playwright, is still going strong....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Last month, Andrzej Lukowski, London Time Out’s theater editor, wrote a well-argued piece in The...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Selina Thompson’s one-woman show salt is on at the Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th May 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Royal Court’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone’s commitment to staging a diversity of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Most of the facts about the Atlantic slave trade are well known; what is less understood is how...
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