Stuart King
01 Nov
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Review: KING LEAR at Wyndham's Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, November 1 2023, 21:00
Kenneth Branagh both directs and stars as King Lear, Shakespeare’s foolishly narcissistic father who allows flattery (and then the lack of it), to cloud his judgement of familial love when deciding how to divide his kingdom between three daughters of differing worthiness.
Kenneth Branagh in KING LEAR. Credit: Johan Persson
31 Oct
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Review: SPUTNIK SWEETHEART at Arcola
By Stuart King Tuesday, October 31 2023, 10:02
Haruki Murakami whose works have been translated into at least 50 languages, is a renowned Japanese writer of novels, essays and short stories. Here, his ethereal prose is given the stage treatment through an adaptation by Bryony Lavery, directed by Melly Still.
Sputnik Sweetheart at Arcola Theatre. Credit Alex Brenner
25 Oct
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Review: THE CONFESSIONS National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Wednesday, October 25 2023, 10:31
The National Theatre Lyttelton’s stage currently conveys places and situations pivotal in the life experience of one particular Australian woman. Her journey starts as uncertain-yet-optimistic schoolgirl in 1943 and onwards as she abandons uni under pressure from her mother, endures (then ends) an unhappy marriage, indulges a love of art, is raped, travels, and finally finds happiness with an older man in London before having his children and losing him to the natural order of things.
The Confessions - Lilit Lesser, Jerry Killick, Pamela Rabe, Eryn Jean Norvill, Joe Bannister - Photo by Christophe Raynaud de Lage
24 Oct
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Review: LA TRAVIATA at English National Opera, London Coliseum
By Stuart King Tuesday, October 24 2023, 11:38
In a case of art inspiring art, Alexander Dumas’ story The Lady of the Camellias (penned in response to his love affair with a courtesan Marie Duplessis), so inspired Guiseppe Verdi at the play’s Parisian premiere, that he purportedly began to write La Traviata — the fallen woman — the moment he left the theatre.
David Webb, Patrick Alexander Keefe, Jonathan Lemalu, Amy Holyland, ENO’s La traviata 2023 © Belinda Jiao
20 Oct
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Review: THE NAG’S HEAD at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, October 20 2023, 09:43
Alice Chambers directs Felix Grainger and Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson’s THE NAG’S HEAD which opened on a rainy Wednesday evening at Park Theatre. The young writer/actors appear alongside Cara Steele in their three-hander, set (perhaps unsurprisingly) at The Nag’s Head pub where a wake for their father, the former owner, has just ended and the siblings are considering what to do with their dilapidated inheritance.
The Nag's Head cast at Park Theatre. Photo credit Alice Chambers.
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