Stuart King
25 Feb
Reviews 
Review: WOMEN, BEWARE THE DEVIL at Almeida
By Stuart King Saturday, February 25 2023, 13:17
The Almeida’s stage is currently redolent of a Vermeer painting — adorned with wood panels, black and white chequered flooring and flickering candles. We’re at the royalist-leaning home of the De Clare family which is populated with lords, ladies, a witchfinder, sundry maids (in varying degrees of maidenhood) and The Devil himself. Well, what ancient stately pile doesn’t have its charming complications and quintessential quirks?
Women, Beware the Devil - Almeida Theatre
21 Feb
Reviews
Review: THE BEACH HOUSE at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 21 2023, 11:03
Jo Harper's gentle three-hander The Beach House had its world premiere at Park Theatre this Monday. A pregnant woman and her new girlfriend decide to imbue some calm and stability to their situation by moving nearer the sea and buying a charming but run down home a stone's throw from the beach where they plan to bring-up the child together. The leaking roof and issues with the floor act as metaphor for the fundamental faults which underpin and undermine their burgeoning relationship.
The Beach House at the Park Theatre
20 Feb
News
VAULT FESTIVAL at Waterloo
By Stuart King Monday, February 20 2023, 18:23
The Vault Festival is back, offering Londoners the chance to catch a dazzlingly array of performance types. Bursts of entertainment come in many and varied forms including cabaret, burlesque, comedy, dance, live music, circus, spoken word and theatrical productions - there's literally something for everyone and it really is worth taking the time to rummage through the listings where you're sure to find a performance to suit every taste, mood and pocket.
Juliette Cowan - Vault Festival
18 Feb
Reviews
Review: SYLVIA at The Old Vic
By Stuart King Saturday, February 18 2023, 10:49
It was perhaps predictable after Hamilton took the world by storm, that a steady stream of hip-hop fusion stage musicals would follow in its wake. For her story of activist Sylvia Pankhurst (daughter of the better known leader of the suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst), Kate Prince has incorporated funk, soul, and energetically choreographed dance to flesh-out her hip-hop production SYLVIA which began life back in 2018 as a far less impressive experiment than the finely-honed musical spectacular now playing at the Old Vic.
The Company in Sylvia at The Old Vic
15 Feb
Reviews
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
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