Stuart King
21 Apr
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Review: ANIMAL at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 21 2023, 23:20
ANIMAL currently enjoying a short run at Park Theatre, received considerable critical praise on its opening in Manchester earlier this year and it’s not difficult to understand why. The creative team behind the story of a young disabled gay guy who is dependent upon his three carers (Matt Ayleigh, Amy Loughton and Harry Singh) but is desperate for a sex life (preferably with some dating involved), have created a big hearted, funny and informed piece of theatre.
Animal at Park Theatre - Photography by Piers Foley
21 Apr
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Review: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES at Almeida
By Stuart King Friday, April 21 2023, 10:16
In the era when Americans began dipping tentative toes in the boiling cauldron of civil rights, President Lyndon Johnson announced the introduction of legislation to remove the last vestiges of segregation. Those who vehemently rejected such notions remained intent on resisting revisions to the social order through intimidation and violence at voting stations. How little times have changed!
The Cast of The Secret Life Of Bees - Photo Credit Marc Brenner
20 Apr
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Review: Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) Gabriela Carrizo / Jiří Kylián / Crystal Pite Simon McBurney at Sadlers Wells
By Stuart King Thursday, April 20 2023, 10:14
In three parts, the evening begins with a weirdly ethereal scene by The Hague’s renowned Nederlands Dans Theater company entitled La Ruta by Gabriela Carrizo. A flickering light at a bus shelter is all that illuminates a nearby night-time main road, where various people and animals become roadkill.
La Ruta - Picture by Rahi Rezvani
19 Apr
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Review: DANCING AT LUGHNASA at National Theatre Olivier
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 19 2023, 10:06
Brian Friel’s 1990 play set during harvest time at the village of Ballybeg somewhere in County Donegal, is intensely evocative of a world which has almost entirely disappeared. At the home of the five Mundy Sisters before the onset of the Second World War, there’s a daily battle to make ends meet whilst looking after the men in their lives — Uncle Jack (Ardal O’Hanlon) just returned from the leper colony in Ugandaand seven year old Michael Evans whose childhood memories recounted as an adult (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) serve to narrate the piece.
Siobhán McSweeney (Maggie), Bláithín Mac Gabhann (Rose), Louisa Harland (Agnes), Justine Mitchell (Kate) & Alison Oliver (Chris) in Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
15 Apr
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Review: LITTLE SCRATCH at New Diorama
By Stuart King Saturday, April 15 2023, 11:05
Arts journo Rebecca Watson’s widely praised debut novel little scratch was given the theatrical treatment by Miriam Battye and first presented as a performance piece at Hampstead Theatre, at the tail end of 2021. Directed by Katie Mitchell with an accompanying rhythmic score by Melanie Wilson, theatregoers get another chance to witness this extraordinarily original and uncompromising flow of consciousness piece, at the New Diorama.
little scratch - New Diorama Theatre - L-R Eve Ponsonby, Eleanor Henderson, Rebekah Murrell & Ragevan Vasan (photo by Ellie Kurttz)
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