Stuart King
13 May
Reviews 
Review: THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES at Noël Coward Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 13 2025, 00:00
Mischief continue the successful farce formula with THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES which has opened at the Noël Coward Theatre. It does exactly what it says on the tin and you’ll know exactly what to expect if you have been to a performance of The Play That Goes Wrong (which recently celebrated 10 years in the West End), or indeed, any of the other titles involving Peter Pan, Magic and a Robbery.
Henry Shields and Adele James in The Comedy About Spies at Noël Coward Theatre.
10 May
Reviews
Review: SNAP! at King’s Head Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, May 10 2025, 15:31
SNAP! (as stated on the posters) or SNAP: A New Musical (as stated just about everywhere else), is a ghastly mishmash of incoherent ideas which the creator has allowed himself to run away with. David O’Brien who is responsible (in the worst possible way) for the book, music and lyrics, should not be shocked when reviewers point out that the end result of his efforts, is a convoluted identity crisis.
The Cast of SNAP at King's Head Theatre. Photo by Stuart Yeatman.
09 May
Reviews
Review: HERE WE ARE at National Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, May 9 2025, 08:56
With a book by David Ives, music and lyrics by the late great Stephen Sondheim, HERE WE ARE is apparently inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, (presumably the goings on in The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Exterminating Angel). This week, the show completed its transatlantic migration and landed at National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage.
The cast of Here We Are at the National Theatre. Photographer Marc Brenner
08 May
Reviews
Review: THE GANG OF THREE at King’s Head
By Stuart King Thursday, May 8 2025, 09:51
Before Thatcher’s hooray Henry capitalism, before Blair’s Brit-pop socialism, there were Oxford educated centre-left politicos who bestrode the land looking every bit a potential future PM as Labour’s pipe-smoking Harold Wilson or his Tory counterpart, the yacht-sailing Ted Heath.
Gang Of Three - Alan Cox, Hywel Morgan, Colin Tierney - photographer Manuel Harlan
07 May
Reviews
Review: AN OAK TREE at Young Vic
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 7 2025, 12:31
AN OAK TREE — Tim Crouch has dusted off his 1hr 15min scripted play from 2005 in which the novelty unknown is a different celebrity on stage with him at each performance. With only an hour beforehand to become acquainted with the premise and format, each willing victim in this exercise, submits themselves entirely to Crouch’s direction of their onstage movements and dialogue. It’s an extreme trust exercise and not everyone will reach the end unscathed.
Jessie Buckley and Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree at the Young Vic. © Pamela Raith.
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