Stuart King
28 Feb
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Review: DEEPSTARIA at Sadler’s Wells
By Stuart King Friday, February 28 2025, 12:10
As with all of Wayne McGregor’s new works, DEEPSTARIA has been a hotly awaited dance piece with its much vaunted dark voids and mysterious spaces igniting an anticipatory buzz and collective salivation among dance aficionados. Sadly, what was presented at Sadler’s Wells Thursday evening opener, was a ponderous primordial soup which managed to plumb the depths of tedium, irrespective of the dancers’ best efforts.
Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria, Company Wayne McGregor, Photo credit Ravi Deepres.
27 Feb
Reviews
Review: THE LAST LAUGH at Noel Coward Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 27 2025, 16:39
What happens when you put three of yesteryear’s British comedy giants in the same room? Well obviously they tell jokes, rib each other, engage in banter and reminisce. Such is the premise of THE LAST LAUGH in which Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse find themselves backstage sharing a dressing room.
THE LAST LAUGH at Noël Coward Theatre. Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe), Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse). Photo Pamela Raith.
22 Feb
Reviews
Review: OTHERLAND at Almeida
By Stuart King Saturday, February 22 2025, 17:09
In a daring and challenging exploration of what it means to be a woman, the Almeida’s recent opening delves into the complexities of relationships where one partner feels the overwhelming need to assume their true self through transitioning.
Otherland by Chris Bush at the Almeida Theatre. Fizz Sinclair and Jade Anouka. Credit Marc Brenner
21 Feb
Reviews
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
By Stuart King Friday, February 21 2025, 08:56
A confectioner’s deluge of pink ticker-tape, drifts slowly from high above Drury Lane’s stage, as disco tracks and rumbustious tomfoolery play-out below. It is undoubtedly what Shakespeare himself would have wanted and after a couple of less-than-loved-Lloyds, wonder boy director Jamie is back in his groove, wowing the masses with his accessible versions of the classics. Here, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING succumbs with minimal resistance to his magical makeover.
The cast of Much Ado About Nothing. Photo by Manuel Harlan
20 Feb
Reviews
Review: TRASH at Peacock Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 20 2025, 09:03
TRASH! Super silly, super structured, super rehearsed, super funny. A riot of unabashed, fizzing, physical mayhem. Choreographed to within an inch of its life yet managing to exude a wholly ad-libbed vibe, TRASH! could be exactly the ingredient to bring a smile in an otherwise dreary February. What’s not to love?
Trash production image.
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