Stuart King
14 Sep
Reviews 
Review: THE CLINIC at the Almeida
By Stuart King Wednesday, September 14 2022, 10:21
Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s THE CLINIC has opened this week at the Almeida under the direction of Monique Touko. The title appears to be a reference to the open-plan kitchen environment of the wealthy black family’s home, in which social inequality discussions and familial bones of contention, provide rich pickings for hostility and combative misunderstandings within a family composed of both vehemently Right and Left leaning advocates, on the political spectrum.
11 Sep
Reviews
Review: HELP! WE ARE STILL ALIVE at Seven Dials Playhouse
By Stuart King Sunday, September 11 2022, 10:10
Elijah Ferreira and Jade Johnson play an ill-matched protagonist couple in a new post-apocalyptic musical HELP! WE ARE STILL ALIVE which opened at the intimate Seven Dials Playhouse this week. The creative enterprise largely concocted by Imogen Palmer and Tim Gilvin, sees Finn and Jass forced to stick with one another when after emerging from 2 days spent hiding from drone sounds in a mortuary freezer compartment, they discover everyone else has disappeared.
Jade Johnson and Elijah Ferreira in HELP! We Are Still Alive at Seven Dials Playhouse. Photo by Danny Kaan.
31 Aug
Reviews
Review: RIDE at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 31 2022, 22:47
Annie Londonderry may not be a familiar name nowadays, but back in the burgeoning days of celebrity culture — 1895 to be precise — she was something of a superstar, having done the unthinkable by circumnavigating the globe, on a bicycle!
Liv Andrusier in RIDE at Charing Cross Theatre - Photographer Danny Kaan
31 Aug
Reviews
Review: ATTENBOROUGH AND HIS ANIMALS at Wilton’s Music Hall
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 31 2022, 16:02
Following previous successful runs at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Clownfish Theatre bring to life their absurdist take on David Attenborough and some of his more dazzlingly memorable encounters with the animal kingdom, for 8 performances at Wilton’s Music Hall in East London.
17 Aug
Reviews
Review: CRUISE at Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 17 2022, 22:08
CRUISE is based on Jack Holden’s personal experiences volunteering in his youth at the London Gay Switchboard Helpline during the 1980s — and he deploys a particularly effective device to segue the audience into that hedonistic lost realm. One clumsily-handled call catapults us to Soho during its heyday and a time in which the AIDS crisis has only just begun to creep into the wider consciousness.
Jack Holden in Cruise at the Apollo Theatre. Photo Pamela Raith.
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