Stuart King
08 Mar
Reviews 
Review: FOR BLACK BOYS... at The Garrick Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, March 8 2024, 22:47
Created by Ryan Calais Cameron and originally presented at the New Diorama Theatre, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy was inspired by Ntozake Shange’s seminal choreopoem For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf and went through various iterations during its 12 years in development. Its format (6 black guys who interact through dialogue, song and movement) acts as a simple vehicle for presenting some weighty subjects disguised by a slick, stylish and playful delivery.
The Cast of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy at the Garrick Theatre.
02 Mar
Reviews
Review: MARRY ME A LITTLE at The Stage Door Theatre, Drury Lane
By Stuart King Saturday, March 2 2024, 19:58
It is perhaps a testament to the extraordinary genius of Stephen Sondheim, that to create MARRY ME A LITTLE, it was merely necessary to conjure a song cycle from elements he’d culled from the final versions of Follies, Company, and A Little Night Music among others. These disparate leftovers were honed into a simple show by Craig Lucas and Norman René which despite its lack of any dialogue or obvious narrative thread had a brief off-Broadway run back in 1980.
Markus Sodergren and Shelley Rivers in Marry Me A Little at The Stage Door Theatre, Drury Lane. Photo Peter Davies
29 Feb
Reviews
Review: STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE at Gillian Lynne Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 29 2024, 13:35
Set on the once notorious Park Hill Housing Estate in Sheffield, this wonderful musical production is the very essence of community spirit, requiring a dynamic creative group effort during its development stages to reach fruition. The result is a show which literally shines bright at every performance.
Company of Standing at the Sky’s Edge © Johan Persson
28 Feb
Reviews
Review: NACHTLAND at Young Vic
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 28 2024, 19:37
Boasting a cast of 6 accomplished performers and a painting purported to be by Hitler, Marius von Mayenburg’s NACHTLAND (with a translation by Mara Zade) is one of those plays which becomes evermore difficult to categorise as one considers the sometimes baffling elements from which it has been constituted. Perhaps… funny satire with considerable potential to trigger, will suffice.
John Heffernan & Jenna Augen in Nachtland at Young Vic © Ellie Kurtt
23 Feb
Reviews
Review: HIR at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, February 23 2024, 15:12
Felicity Huffman‘s UK theatre debut as the freakishly controlling Paige in Taylor Mac's touchingly chaotic family drama HIR (pronounced here), serves as consummate lesson in how to effectively secrete a big persona into a small space without eclipsing everyone around you.
The cast of HIR at Park Theatre.
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