Stuart King
24 Sep
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Review: EUREKA DAY at the Old Vic
By Stuart King Saturday, September 24 2022, 20:37
If celebrity attendees on press nights are any measure of whether a show is likely to be a hot ticket, then EUREKA DAY seems destined to play to packed houses for the duration of its run at the Old Vic.
Kirsten Foster, Susan Kelechi Watson, Mark McKinney and Helen Hunt in Eureka Day at The Old Vic, photo by Manuel Harlan
23 Sep
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Review: THE APOLOGY at Arcola Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, September 23 2022, 15:14
During the Japanese occupation of Korea during the Second World War, women and girls were encouraged to do their patriotic duty by joining the Female Volunteer Corps. In Kyo Choi’s play directed by Ria Parry, we learn through a series of testimonies, that the organisation’s idiomatic name was little more than a bureaucratic smokescreen to facilitate a supply of sex slaves for the occupying troops. The thousands of victims, often duped into believing they would be serving as nurses, were referred to as comfort women.
19 Sep
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Review: DON GIOVANNI at The Royal Opera House
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2022, 09:52
Drawn from de Molina’s original Spanish tale of the lover and libertine Don Juan, Mozart’s Don Giovanni premiered at Prague in 1787 with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.It received arapturous reception and has remained a popular and regular inclusion in the opera repertoire ever since, proving conclusively that we all love to see a baddie get his comeuppance.
Christopher Maltman (Leporello), Thomas Faulkner (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Royal Opera House, Don Giovanni © Marc Brenner 2022
16 Sep
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Review: ROSE at Park Theatre!
By Stuart King Friday, September 16 2022, 08:11
Park Theatre’s staging of Martin Sherman’s 1999 monologue for an elderly Jewish holocaust survivor, gives audiences a chance to get up close and intimate with Dame Maureen Lipman as she delivers a funny, harrowing and poignant personal account of one woman’s journey through mankind’s darkest and most turbulent period and on into the future.
Dame Maureen Lipman in Rose at Park Theatre.
15 Sep
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Review: THE SNAIL HOUSE at The Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, September 15 2022, 20:52
During the birthday party organised to celebrate a knighthood which has been bestowed upon him in recognition of his professional achievements during the pandemic, Sir Neil Marriot finds himself forced to confront the character flaws which continue to cause pain and irritation to his long-suffering wife, son and daughter. In a bizarre twist, a member of the contract catering team recognises the newly conferred knight as the very man whose complacent, over-confident medical testimony years earlier, resulted in a life-ruining miscarriage of justice against her. She sees her chance to press for an admission he got it wrong and an apology. But is the infallible Sir Neil, even capable of such exacting reflection?
Patrick Walshe McBride, Eva Pope, Vincent Franklin, Grace Hogg-Robinson, front Megan Mcdonnell in The Snail House at the Hampstead Theatre © Manuel Harlan
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