Stuart King
06 Jun
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Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bridge Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, June 6 2025, 10:46
I last saw Nick Hytner’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bridge Theatre back in June 2019 before the Covid pandemic was a twinkle in a Chinese lab technician’s test tube. The mysticism of Shakespeare’s woodland mayhem resonated then and remains potent, based as it is on the 1623 First Folio with circa 500 lines reassigned for modernising and comedy purposes.
Ali Goldsmith, Jemima Brown, Bella Aubin, Kat Collings in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Bridge (Credit Manuel Harlan)
03 Jun
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Review: LETTERS FROM MAX at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, June 3 2025, 10:58
Sarah Ruhl has produced this stage adaptation of her book LETTERS FROM MAX written with Max Ritvo in which her collaborator, a vibrant and energetic young intellectual aesthete, tackles the most taxing of human challenges.
Sirine Saba and Laura Moody in Letters from Max. Photo Helen Murray
30 May
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Review: ELEPHANT at Menier Chocolate Factory
By Stuart King Friday, May 30 2025, 11:14
Given the checkered history of ivory and its interconnectedness with pianos, Africa and slavery, it’s somewhat surprising that no-one has previously thought to conjure a theatre piece which manages to incorporate these elements and tie them in with Empire and Britain’s ongoing struggle with its legacy class system.
Anoushka Lucas sat at piano in Elephant at Menier Chocolate Factory. Credit Manuel Harlan
29 May
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Review: MARRIAGE MATERIAL at Lyric Hammersmith
By Stuart King Thursday, May 29 2025, 17:02
It’s the late 1960s and two teenage Punjabi sisters, part of a close-knit Sikh family in Wolverhampton, learn what it means to be part of a community which is forced to fight for acceptance and respect, whilst never losing sight of its history, traditions, culture and aspirations.
Jaz Singh Deol, Anoushka Deshmukh, Irfan Shamji, Omar Malik, and Kiran Landa in Marriage Material at Lyric Hammersmith. Photography by Helen Murray
28 May
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Review: THE FROGS at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 28 2025, 22:21
If it weren’t a Sondheim show, you’d think it the height of pretension that any modern creative would choose to turn a 2,400 year old story by Aristophanes, into a musical.
The cast of The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse. Photo Pamela Raith
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