Stuart King
18 Jun
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Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Gielgud Theatre
By Stuart King Sunday, June 18 2023, 09:02
Amidst the puritan’s early social colony at Salem, Massachusetts Bay, a man momentarily succumbs to the charms of his bedridden wife’s young housemaid. When her juvenile fantasies of love are rebuffed, in her craving for vengeance she conjures demonic visions and gradually implicates more and more victims with her accusations of witch-craft.
Milly Alcock as Abigail Williams, Brian Gleeson as John Proctor and the cast of The Crucible West End. Credit Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
16 Jun
Reviews
Review: ES AND FLO at Kiln Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, June 16 2023, 09:07
Es and Flo (Liz Crowther and Doreene Blackstock) are two women in a loving relationship which started thirty-seven years earlier at Greenham Common during the heady days of the CND peace camp protests against Britain’s adoption of the Trident nuclear weapon system.
Doreene Blackstock (Flo) and Liz Crowther (Es) in Es & Flo at Kiln Theatre. Photo Kirsten McTernan.
13 Jun
Reviews
Review: PAPER CUT at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, June 13 2023, 09:52
North London’s powerhouse fringe venue continues to offer challenging, interesting and innovative work at its two spaces. PAPER CUT a new play from the pen of Andrew Rosendorf is a four-hander dealing with the physical and emotional toll suffered by soldiers returning from a violent tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Callum Mardy and Joe Bolland in Paper Cut at Park Theatre. Photo credit Stefan Hanegraaf
12 Jun
Reviews
Review: THE MIKADO at Wilton’s Music Hall
By Stuart King Monday, June 12 2023, 09:11
Operetta aficionados the world over will be familiar with the shenanigans of the Japanese Imperial court captured in Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 production THE MIKADO — their 9th of 14 collaborations. Here, Sasha Regan follows her now familiar formula in giving the venerable Victorian stories an entertainingly updated twist, performed by an all-male cast.
The Mikado Christopher Hewitt ( Kitty Shaw) and David McKechnie (Mr Cocoa) Photo Mark Senior
12 Jun
Reviews
Review: GRINDR: THE OPERA at Union Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, June 12 2023, 08:47
Erik Ransom’s music and lyrics may not always hit Sondheim’s stride (despite the occasional dubiously-similar refrain and couplet), but he has certainly crammed as many gay dating-app tropes and references into a 2 hour show as is humanly possible — and the results are undeniably entertaining.
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