Stuart King
10 Feb
Reviews 
Review: PHAEDRA at National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Friday, February 10 2023, 12:35
Scholars would accept that the Greeks knew a thing or two about mankind’s foibles, failings and fallibilities. Undoubtedly determined to ensure that the theatrical fashion for exploring human vice and perversion would never die-out, their dramatists oft returned to (and rehashed) yarns of gore, exploring incest, infanticide, lust, regicide and an assortment of other unpalatable proclivities, to excess.
Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
01 Feb
Reviews
Review: HOW NOT TO DROWN at Theatre Royal Stratford East
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 1 2023, 10:35
With just five performers — including Dritan Kastrati, on whose real life experiences HOW NOT TO DROWN is based — Stratford East continues its association with hard-hitting drama which gives voice to the under-represented, victimised and dispossessed.
Sam Reuben and the Company of How Not To Drown. Credit Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.
24 Jan
Reviews
Review: THE ELEPHANT SONG at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, January 24 2023, 09:23
Psychiatric wards have provided a rich source of material for writers and dramatists over the decades, but in a world where our mental health and well-being are discussed and evaluated more openly than at any time in human history, does Nicholas Billon’s psychological drama THE ELEPHANT SONG have anything interesting to say to a modern audience?
19 Jan
Reviews
Review: THE UNFRIEND at Criterion Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, January 19 2023, 23:00
Holiday friendships (especially those made on a cruise ship) aren’t meant to go beyond the holiday, right? Everybody knows that. It’s one of those dependable unwritten rules! Unless that is, you are Elsa Jean Krakowski, a brash American widow and Trump-devotee from Denver, with something of a disturbing history, who has just emailed to advise she’s standing outside your front door.
18 Jan
Reviews
Review: ALLEGIANCE at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, January 18 2023, 13:12
Based on the real life recollections of George Takei (known to millions as Mr Sulu in Star Trek), writers Lorenzo Thione and Jay Kuo have created ALLEGIANCE based on a book by Marc Acito.
The familial divisions which resulted from this rarely explored aspect of the Second World War, are illuminated and dissected in musical form - with heart-rending results.
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