Stuart King
01 Apr
Reviews 
Review: COCK at The Ambassadors Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 1 2022, 12:15
Whilst the title of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play may intrigue and titillate some potential theatregoers, it may also deter others. But rest assured, there is no gratuitous nudity and the couple of short-lived sex scenes are conveyed with subtlety and by means of exquisitely fluid physical choreography in Marianne Elliot’s beautifully charged and nuanced production now playing at the Ambassadors.
Jade Anouka and Jonathan Bailey in Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre. Photo Brinkhoff/Moegenburg
31 Mar
Reviews
Review: ONE NIGHT WITH ROBBIE WILLIAMS at The Courtyard Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 31 2022, 12:27
The Courtyard Theatre (English National Opera’s former rehearsal and workshop space in Hoxton which was itself a former public library) hosts a short run of Matt Littleson’s new single-hander play One Night With Robbie Williams.
24 Mar
Reviews
Review: STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY at the Bridge Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 24 2022, 08:59
Ordinarily, the winning combination of a new David Hare play with the presence of a bona fide movie star like Ralph Fiennes assuming its lead role, would set pulses racing and box office tills ringing. But whilst the run may have virtually sold-out before it opened due to the star’s cachet, the piece is something of a didactic dirge with only momentary flashes of levity and pathos. It’s a far cry from the playwright’s heady power-output of “Racing Demon”, “Amy’s View”, “Plenty” and “Pravda”, which now feel like very distant successes by comparison.
Dani Moseley as Carol Amis in Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
21 Mar
Reviews
Review: CINDERELLA at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, March 21 2022, 08:58
Easily eclipsing all competition for the campest spectacle in the West End, is Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Cinderella playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre (formerly the New London which was renamed in honour of the choreographer whose work on Cats ran at the theatre for 21 years between 1981 - 2002).
Carrie Hope Fletcher, Laura Baldwin, Victora Hamilton-Barritt, and Georgina Castle in Cinderella, Photo Credit Tristram Kenton.
16 Mar
Reviews
Review: STEVE AND TOBIAS VERSUS DEATH at the Pleasance Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 16 2022, 11:02
When brothers Tobias and Steve learn that their mother was patient zero in a world now possessed of flesh-eating zombies, they are forced to patch their differences whilst caring for her and fending-off the seemingly endless onslaught from those outside wanting to get in.
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