Stuart King
18 Mar
Reviews 
Review: THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, March 18 2023, 09:37
Park Theatre once again acts as a showcase for a wonderfully uplifting frolic — this time sporting platform shoes, blue eye shadow and fake beards — brought to you courtesy of the husband and husband team of Ian Hallard and Mark Gatiss.
James Bradshaw (Edward) and Andrew Horton (Christian) - The Way Old Friends Do - credit Darren Bell
09 Mar
Reviews
Review: AFTER THE ACT at New Diorama Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 9 2023, 10:34
On a cold and wet London evening, the bijou, ultra-modern, glass-fronted, New Diorama Theatre acts as a beacon of light in Euston’s otherwise monochrome and largely sterile urban corpora-scape. Currently playing host to AFTER THE ACT— subtitled: A Section 28 Musical — the venue also serves as a beacon for liberally-themed, thought-provoking (and even memory inducing) newly commissioned work.
After the Act (Photo by Alex Brenner) EM Williams, Ellice Stevens, Tika Mu'tamir, Zachary Willis
07 Mar
Reviews
Review: UNDER THE BLACK ROCK at Arcola
By Stuart King Tuesday, March 7 2023, 10:02
A giant, ominous black rock is suspended by ropes above the playing area in the staging of a new and hard-hitting drama about The Troubles by Tim Edge. Twenty-Five years after the Good Friday Agreement finally brought to an end the decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, UNDER THE BLACK ROCK serves as a timely reminder of what’s at stake.
Under the Black Rock. Photo credit Gregory Haney.
01 Mar
Reviews
Review: OKLAHOMA! at Wyndhams Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 1 2023, 10:04
On a brightly lit, pine wood stage which extends to the facia panels on the walls and boxes around the Wyndham’s auditorium, (effectively rendering them like cheap Western coffin lids) the banjo, guitar and string-strumming band members remain in full sight of the audience from the get go in this production of spectacular extremes. It’s certainly Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, or indeed heard it…or once loved it.
Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Philip Olagoke (Cord Elam) and Georgina Onuorah (Ado Annie) in Oklahoma! Photo by Marc Brenner.
25 Feb
Reviews
Review: RUSALKA at Royal Opera House
By Stuart King Saturday, February 25 2023, 13:28
A new production of RUSALKA — Antonin Dvorak’s 1901 lyric fairy tale with libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil — opened at Covent Garden this week, and it is most definitely one for the eco-age. Created, directed and largely choreographed by the combined talents of Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee the tale mixes Czech mysticism with the familiar folkloric story of a disenchanted water nymph who longs for her Prince (variously Ondine, Mélisande and The Little Mermaid elsewhere) and gives-up her voice to assume human form.
Rusalka at the Royal Opera House - Photo Camilla Greenwell.
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