Aleks Sierz
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- Bio
- Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.
Articles by Aleks Sierz
Gutted, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Saturday, 04 May 2013
Rikki Beadle-Blair is a high-energy polymath. He’s a real phenomenon. Raised by his lesbian mum in sarf London, he wrote his first play at the age of seven and was, he claims, already directing four... Read more... |
Fräulein Julie, Barbican Theatre
Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Most theatre directors produce work which is visually the same as everyone else’s. Katie Mitchell doesn’t. Her plays are always brilliantly acted, highly atmospheric and often use film media in an... Read more... |
Doktor Glas, Wyndham’s Theatre
Friday, 19 April 2013
Scandi thrillers have a lot to answer for. Ever since the small-screen success of the Swedish Wallander series, based on the books by Henning Mankell, there has been a host of other must-sees —... Read more... |
Beautiful Thing, Arts Theatre
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Some plays are game-changers. When Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing opened at the tiny Bush Theatre in 1993 the joy that radiated off the stage was ample affirmation that this tale of puppy love had... Read more... |
Table, National Theatre
Saturday, 13 April 2013
The family can be a knot of hatred as well as a cradle of love. Rather late in this new play by Tanya Ronder comes a scene in which a separated husband and wife try to untangle this knot, and end up... Read more... |
Narrative, Royal Court Theatre
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Anthony Neilson is the wild man of new writing. However, this reputation, which has been provoked by shock-fests such as Penetrator (1993) and Stitching (2002), belies the fact that some of his best... Read more... |
The Thrill of Love, St James Theatre
Thursday, 04 April 2013
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, is a cultural icon, the image of the peroxide blonde who spells big trouble. An influence on Diana Dors in the 1956 film Yield to the Night, she... Read more... |
The Low Road, Royal Court Theatre
Thursday, 28 March 2013
“My honest instinct,” says Jim, the hero of Bruce Norris’s The Low Road, “is one of resentment.” And while this contemporary fable of industrious bees, aka capitalist speculators, is set in the past... Read more... |
Three Birds, Bush Theatre
Saturday, 23 March 2013
The best horror stories take place in mundane surroundings. The envelope of the ordinary gives a context of credibility to the practically incredible. In Janice Okoh’s new play, which won the 2011... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Malta: After Censorship
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Legendary English playwright Edward Bond doesn’t often come to Malta, but when he does, he doesn’t suffer fools gladly. After the first performance of his Olly’s Prison — a stage version of the 1993... Read more... |
If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep, Royal Court Theatre
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Is this the most poetic title in London theatre today? Anders Lustgarten’s new play joins a ragged march of work, from David Hare’s The Power of Yes (2009) to Clare Duffy’s Money: The Gameshow (... Read more... |
Our Country’s Good, St James Theatre
Tuesday, 05 February 2013
Plays about plays are often touched by theatrical magic. This is certainly the case with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s masterpiece, first staged in 1988, and now revived by the same director, Max Stafford... Read more... |
Port, National Theatre
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Over the past decade or so, Simon Stephens has emerged as one of Britain’s premier playwrights. As well as being a prolific penman, with three volumes of collected plays already in print, he has been... Read more... |
Di and Viv and Rose, Hampstead Theatre
Thursday, 24 January 2013
When feminism was really cool, female playwrights would write flatshare dramas about a group of women, each of whom was representative of a certain way of life. The play title would just be a list of... Read more... |
No Quarter, Royal Court Theatre
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Most of us would love to live in a happy family, but it’s the unhappy ones that make the most compelling drama. And few playwrights do familial tensions as instinctively as Polly Stenham, whose... Read more... |
In the Republic of Happiness, Royal Court Theatre
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Christmas plays are a seasonal curse of British theatre. But there are alternatives to pantos and Dickens monologues. At the Royal Court Theatre, there is a tradition of more edgy Christmas fare,... Read more... |
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How to contact Aleks Sierz
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- http://www.inyerface-theatre.com