Stuart King
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.
16 Sep
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Review: THE ALCHEMIST at RSC Barbican
By Stuart King Friday, September 16 2016, 16:10
A resourceful manservant is left in charge of his master’s London home during an outbreak of plague and during his absence, falls-in with a pair of confidence tricksters. The resultant bargain struck between the three, provides the basis for Ben Johnson’s seminal 1610 work The Alchemist which is currently being presented in the main house of the Barbican, by the RSC.
19 Aug
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Review: SHANGHAI BALLET, ECHOES OF ETERNITY at ENO's Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, August 19 2016, 14:00
Russian dancers fleeing the revolution first introduced the western art form of ballet to the city of Shanghai in the 1920s, with Madame Mao personally promoting the formation of China's national dance school in the 1950s. Xin Lili, herself one of the company's former leading dancers has been director for the past 15 years and advocates interpretation and inclusion of both western-inspired classics and more traditional, Chinese-stylised subjects.
01 Aug
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Review: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S at Haymarket Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, August 1 2016, 10:25
Adapted for the stage by Richard Greenberg (Tony Award winner for Take Me Out), Truman Capote’s “BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S” hits the Haymarket Theatre West End, with pint-sized pop princess Pixie Lott, reprising Audrey Hepburn’s classic 1961 film portrayal of the effortlessly chic, yet endearingly vulnerable Holly Golightly.
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