Stuart King
13 Mar
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Review: A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion to Someone (-noun)
By Stuart King Monday, March 13 2017, 07:49
"Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been."
Meera Syal leads the cast of five players whose various paired exchanges will resonate strongly with audience members who are engaged in, or have been part of, a long-term relationship. Statements redolent of bitterness, yearning, irritation, sadness, regret and intensely intimate, passionate loving and caring, form the basis for most of the exchanges. They focus the couples' interactions, divergences of understanding, thoughtless unkindnesses and their irrational immediate, self-protecting deconstructions.
11 Nov
Reviews
Review: DEAD FUNNY at the Vaudeville Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, November 11 2016, 14:24
Slapstick and pathos can make for uneasy bedfellows, it is then perhaps a mark of the quality of Terry Johnson's 1992 play Dead Funny that they marry so well and provide the basis for an evening of wonderful and emotionally moving entertainment.
A superb cast of five - each ideally suited to their part - deliver the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances of this revival, currently enjoying a run at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand.
15 Oct
Reviews
Review: THE DRESSER, Duke of York's Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, October 15 2016, 11:17
Back in 1983 I had the extraordinary privilege of witnessing Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay deliver two of the most theatrically ebullient performances about the grandeur and grimness of a life in luvvydom, ever committed to celluloid. This was Peter Yates film version of The Dresser which relied upon Ronald Harwood’s exceptional scripting of his original play to generate considerable critical success, including 5 Academy Award nominations.
19 Sep
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Review: GROUNDHOG DAY at The Old Vic
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:12
Bill Murray’s creation of Phil Connors, an egotistical and contemptuous TV weatherman who finds himself trapped in a time-loop whilst conducting an outside broadcast in Punxsutawney, a Pennsylvania backwater, achieved instant cult status when the original film of “Groundhog Day” was released in 1993. The backwater and its unsophisticated inhabitants, whose singular notoriety stems from the antics of a ground-dwelling rodent, (which legend tells can predict the weather depending on whether it spies its own shadow on February 2nd), is the focus of short-lived annual interest, but viewed with undisguised derision by our anti-hero.
19 Sep
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Review: THE ENTERTAINER at Garrick Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:04
Kenneth Branagh ends his season of plays at The Garrick with John Osborne’s 1957 commentary on post-war Britain’s parlous and weakened state, highlighted by the military and diplomatic inadequacies revealed in the government’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis, presaging the collapse of the British Empire.
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