Stuart King
15 Feb
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Review: WINDFALL at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 15 2023, 13:15
Fresh from its 2022 New York outing, Scooter Pietsch's chaotic comedy contrivance WINDFALL has landed at Southwark Playhouse for a limited London run. Directed by Mark Bell (The Play That Goes Wrong andThe Comedy About A Bank Robbery), Windfall follows a similar zany trajectory, as five abused office colleagues form a lottery syndicate and pin their hopes of a future without their vile boss, on winning a gargantuan jackpot. What could possibly go wrong?
Windfall at the Southwark Playhouse. Photo by Pamela Raith
14 Feb
Reviews
Review: WINNER’S CURSE at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 14 2023, 19:06
The stakes are high when a fragile ceasefire causes two countries to enter into peace talks. The strip of land they have been fighting over, could be any of a number of world conflict zones, but right now with Ukraine never far from anyone's mind, the scenario seems particularly prescient.
10 Feb
Reviews
Review: PHAEDRA at National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Friday, February 10 2023, 12:35
Scholars would accept that the Greeks knew a thing or two about mankind’s foibles, failings and fallibilities. Undoubtedly determined to ensure that the theatrical fashion for exploring human vice and perversion would never die-out, their dramatists oft returned to (and rehashed) yarns of gore, exploring incest, infanticide, lust, regicide and an assortment of other unpalatable proclivities, to excess.
Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
01 Feb
Reviews
Review: HOW NOT TO DROWN at Theatre Royal Stratford East
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 1 2023, 10:35
With just five performers — including Dritan Kastrati, on whose real life experiences HOW NOT TO DROWN is based — Stratford East continues its association with hard-hitting drama which gives voice to the under-represented, victimised and dispossessed.
Sam Reuben and the Company of How Not To Drown. Credit Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.
24 Jan
Reviews
Review: THE ELEPHANT SONG at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, January 24 2023, 09:23
Psychiatric wards have provided a rich source of material for writers and dramatists over the decades, but in a world where our mental health and well-being are discussed and evaluated more openly than at any time in human history, does Nicholas Billon’s psychological drama THE ELEPHANT SONG have anything interesting to say to a modern audience?
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