
Stuart King


Review: ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, September 19 2023, 10:07
The life of a Silicon Valley software engineer Merril (MyAnna Buring) implodes when her younger sister Angie (Dakota Blue Richards) vanishes. A year passes during which police make little headway in the case, so Merril begins to trawl through the online digital footprint her sister has left behind and creates an AI algorithm from the data — but will the result be a familiar (albeit computer generated) companion, or open a Pandora’s Box of other information?
MyAnna Buring in ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit The Other Richard.


Review: THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at @sohoplace
By Stuart King Friday, September 15 2023, 08:17
When the third son in a family of vibrant and committed rugby fans succumbs to a swimming accident whilst on holiday with his brothers in Portugal, the world changes overnight — for everyone. THE LITTLE BIG THINGS is a zingingly fresh story which manages to tick all the right boxes as it combines comedy with a soupçon of schmaltz, but mercifully manages to avoid musical theatre cliché and cynicism.
The cast of THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at Soho Place. Photo by Pamela Raith.


Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Ambassadors Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, September 14 2023, 16:23
Noel Coward’s perennial comedy of warring coupledom has been dusted-off for yet another outing in the West End, and it has aged surprisingly well — or perhaps this reviewer has simply begun to feel an alarming sense of nostalgia for the plays which were considered tired old warhorses in his youth!
Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers in Private Lives at the Ambassadors Theatre


Review: RED PITCH at Bush Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, September 13 2023, 09:54
Three 16-year old, black South London youths, look for stability in their ever-changing urban landscape. The red football pitch they’ve known all their lives is under constant threat from redevelopers and as the responsibilities of adulthood beckon, each has to evaluate his place in the world and the group.


Review: DEATH NOTE at Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
By Stuart King Friday, September 8 2023, 09:54
Known to all Japanese manga fans, DEATH NOTE is a story by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata which involves a mythological Shinigami death god Ryuk (George Maguire), his discarded notebook and the adventures of the Tokyo student who stumbles upon it. Until Sunday you too can witness this extraordinarily individual production in the West End.
Dean John Wilson (L) and Christian Rey Marbella (Soichiro) in Death Note at the Lyric Theatre. Photo Mark Senior
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