aleks sierz
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Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.
Articles By Aleks Sierz
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Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne - detailed acting, great sin...
If Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto for Richard...
Ian Rickson: 'I'm an introvert, I want to stop tal...
Ian Rickson’s route into theatre was not conventional. Growing up in south London, he was rarely taken to the theatre as a child, and discovered...
A Very English Scandal, BBC One review - making a drama out...
There was a time when Hugh Grant was viewed as a thespian one-trick pony, a floppy-haired fop dithering in a state of perpetual romantic confusion...
Bridget Christie, Brighton Festival review - politics throug...
Bridget Christie tells us at the top of the show that she is a heterosexual, able-bodied, privileged white female – so why is she feeling so...
The Handmaid's Tale, Series 2, Channel 4 review - it...
Not the least startling element of Bishop Michael Curry’s house-rockin’ sermon at the royal nuptials was his quotation from the old spiritual “...
The World Of Moominvalley, Brighton Festival review - a fasc...
It was no matter that journalist Daniel Hahn dropped out ill at the 11th hour of this "audience with" event. Author Philip Ardagh's deep knowledge...
CD: Gretchen Peters - Dancing with the Beast
Gretchen Peters arrived in Nashville in the late eighties from Bronxville, New York, where...
William Trevor: Last Stories review - final intimations
An Irishman who spent more than half a century in London and then Devon, and a prolific writer – nearly 20...
Madama Butterfly, Glyndebourne review - perverse staging, ou...
Puccini’s heroines and the rough treatment he hands out to them have come in for plenty of opprobrium over the years. But just occasionally they...
On Chesil Beach review - perfect playing in a poignant Ian M...
Ian McEwan has said that he decided to adapt his 2007 novel On Chesil Beach for the...