“London Zoo,” Southwark Playhouse
Before the internet, newspapers were central to the national conversation in Britain. By the first...
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Before the internet, newspapers were central to the national conversation in Britain. By the first...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Jul 2023 | Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom
Climate-change activist Greta Thunberg is great at doing two things: irritating complacent adults...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jun 2021 | London, Review, United Kingdom
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Feb 2021 | Covid-19, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
Film is the new theatre — this we know, but does the distance imposed by the change of medium...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Nov 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Playwright Philip Ridley has had a very productive lockdown. Despite the constraints of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jan 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Turn on the news. Go on. No? Okay, switch on the radio. Why not? Oh, I see, because the news is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
James Saunders is one of British theatre’s forgotten playwrights. Although he wrote some 70 plays...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Oct 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
There are not that many plays about sport, but, whether you gamble on results or not, you can bet...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Let us have a quick moan about repertoire. You know, the types of plays that most of our theatres...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, London, Review, United Kingdom
Some plays would now be completely forgotten if not for a scandal that makes them memorable. NC...
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