Stuart King
28 Feb
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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.
22 Feb
Reviews
Review: HADESTOWN at Lyric Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 22 2024, 06:18
Winner of what now appears to be an overly generous clutch of 8 Tony Awards on Broadway, HADESTOWN by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has finally made the leap across the pond to London's West End.
HADESTOWN, Lyric Theatre. Photo credit Marc Brenner
21 Feb
Reviews
Review: DOUBLE FEATURE at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 21 2024, 07:41
John Logan is an experienced American playwright whose screen credits include Gladiator, The Aviator and Skyfall. His previous plays include Peter and Alice, and Red, so it was with a sense of excited anticipation that this reviewer headed to Hampstead Theatre for the press night of DOUBLE FEATURE.
Joanna Vanderham as Tippi Hedren and Ian Mcneice as Alfred Hitchcock in Double Feature. Credit Manuel Harlan
16 Feb
Reviews
Review: DEAR OCTOPUS at National Theatre Lyttelton
By Stuart King Friday, February 16 2024, 09:35
Dodie Smith’s 1938 between-the-wars family drama is set at the rustic middle-class home of the Randolph family, where several generations have gathered to celebrate Dora and Charles’ golden wedding anniversary. On Frankie Bradshaw’s wonderful, pastel-jade revolving set complete with real smoking fires (who knew such things were possible on a theatre stage in these modern safety-conscious times?), the family pervades an air of stoic calm in the face of minor and not-so-minor familial irritations, as another European conflict seems imminent.
Dharmesh Patel (Kenneth), Ariella Elkins-Green (Flouncy), Billy Howle (Nicholas), Isla Ithier (Scrap) and Amy Morgan (Margery) in Dear Octopus at the National Theatre (c) Marc Brenner
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