Stuart King
04 Nov
Reviews 
Review: THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD at ENO, London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, November 4 2022, 09:54
The Tower of London provides the backdrop for Gilbert & Sullivan’s playful romp-amidst-the-ravens where the waywardly amorous daughter of a righteous Beefeater has designs on one of the inmates (whom it seems, everyone believes innocent of the crime for which he has been incarcerated). By using her womanly wiles and appealing to her father’s good nature, Phoebe contrives to set-free the object of her desire and instead imprison him in matrimony. But is she doomed to failure?
A scene from Yeoman Of The Guard by Gilbert & Sullivan @ Coliseum. Directed by Jo Davies. Conductor, Chris Hopkins. ©Tristram Kenton
01 Nov
Reviews
Review: MARY at the Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, November 1 2022, 08:16
For a woman who was executed aged 44 more than four centuries ago, there remains an extraordinarily healthy fascination with Mary Queen of Scots, her life, loves, apparent political miss-steps and legacy. Much has been written over the centuries — overwhelmingly by men and through a male power prism — invariably gaslighting Mary’s vulnerability as misguided passion resulting in ill-considered alliances conceived through little more than lust.
Douglas Henshall (James Melville) Brian Vernel (Thompson) Rona Morison (Agnes) in Mary at Hampstead Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
28 Oct
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Review: TAMMY FAYE at Almeida
By Stuart King Friday, October 28 2022, 10:42
When news of its existence began circulating many moons ago, there seemed something delightfully subversive about the prospect of Elton John and Jake Shears combining their songwriting talents to create a musical based on the tumultuous life of one of the Christian Evangelical movement’s most unforgettable, beloved, pilloried, reviled and eventually rehabilitated television personalities, Tammy Faye Bakker.
24 Oct
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Review: A SINGLE MAN at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, October 24 2022, 10:22
Tom Ford electrified the movie world in 2009 with his gorgeously soft-focussed, cinematic adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel about a bereaved gay teacher, set in the early 1960s amidst Santa Monica’s swinging set.
Miles Molan, Phoebe Pryce, Theo Fraser Steele, Olivia Darnley, Freddie Gaminara - Photographer Mitzi de Margary.
18 Oct
Reviews
Review: GOOD at Harold Pinter Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, October 18 2022, 00:05
David Tennant must be one of our hardest working actors. He never seems to be off our televisions, cinema screens, West End stages and the radio. Here’s your chance to catch him live and in-person, every evening until 24th December as he leads a revival of C.P. Taylor’s hard-hitting play GOOD which was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse back in 1981. But be warned, this is far from frivolous fluff.
David Tennant and Sharon Small in GOOD at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Directed by Dominic Cooke, Photographer Johan Persson
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