Stuart King
14 Apr
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Review: VARDY V ROONEY: THE WAGATHA CHRISTIE TRIAL at Ambassadors Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 14 2023, 10:46
The term popular culture used to encompass any art form embraced by the majority and especially the young, but since the advent of social media — as distinct from tabloid newspapers — virtually anyone of the most minor notoriety in any sphere (and his wife), have been elevated to the status of a celebrity. Indeed the word has itself become something of a joke and a byword for mediocrity and worthlessness within pop culture circles.
Verna Vyas and Lucy May Barker (Vardy) in Vardy v Rooney The Wagatha Christie Trial - Photo Pamela Raith
07 Apr
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Review: THE DRY HOUSE at Marylebone Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 7 2023, 08:37
Mairead McKinley, Kathy Kiera Clarke and Carla Langley breathe life into three, heartbreakingly damaged characters Chrissy, Claire and Heather in a work recently created by writer director Eugene O’Hare. Now playing at the fresh new Marylebone Theatre, THE DRY HOUSE forms part of the venue’s inaugural season.
Kathy Kiera Clarke in The Dry House at Marylebone Theatre. Photo Manuel Harlan.
05 Apr
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Review: BETTY BLUE EYES at Union Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 5 2023, 09:46
There exists such an abundance of energy and enthusiasm for the material, that it would take a curmudgeon of Dickensian proportions to deny the cast of BETTY BLUE EYES (currently giving their all at the tiny Union Theatre) a huge commendation for pulling-out all the stops and breathing oodles of life into Alan Bennett’s fusty Northern English tale of post-war rationing, clandestine pig-rearing and all-pervading snobbery.
Betty Blue Eyes at the Union Theatre. Photo Michaela Walshe
30 Mar
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Review: BERLUSCONI - A NEW MUSICAL at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
By Stuart King Thursday, March 30 2023, 19:54
Silvio Berlusconi — he of the boot polish slicked hair and perma-tan, former cruise ship crooner, Italian media mogul, football club owner and populist billionaire politico, gets a musical makeover aged 86 — even before there is any sign that he intends shuffling off his mortal coil (at least at time of writing)!
Sally Ann Triplett (Ilda) and Sebastien Torkia (Silvio Berlusconi) in Berlusconi A New Musical. Photo © Nick Rutter
23 Mar
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Review: KILLING THE CAT at Riverside Studios
By Stuart King Thursday, March 23 2023, 08:56
With book and lyrics by Warner Brown and music by Joshua Schmidt, new musical KILLING THE CAT has opened for a limited run at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Unimaginatively directed by Jenny Eastop the semi-staged production and a cast of 5 with mere keyboards, cello and drums for accompaniment, regale the audience with 27 songs over the course of the show, but there is limited value in naming any of the numbers given the uniformly bland nature of the compositions.
Molly Lynch, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Kluane Saunders, and Tim Rogers in Killing the Cat. Photo Danny Kaan.
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