Stuart King
06 May
Reviews 
Review: FAYGELE at Marylebone Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 6 2025, 23:00
On his thirteeenth birthday, a young Orthodox Jew realises that he is gay but is rebuked by his father as an embarrassment when he effeminately crosses his legs for a photograph during his bar mitzvah celebrations. The FAYGELE of the title, is Yiddish for a little bird, but is more commonly used as a slur which loosely translates as faggot.
Clara Francis, Ilan Galkoff, and Ben Caplan. Faygele, Marylebone Theatre.
03 May
Reviews
Review: GIANT at Harold Pinter Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, May 3 2025, 11:46
Following its huge commercial and critical success at the Royal Court, Mark Rosenblatt’s GIANT (Olivier Award for Best Play) this week began a West End transfer, settling at the 872 seater Harold Pinter until 2nd August.
Giant production image. Photo by Johan Persson
02 May
Reviews
Review: KRAPP’S LAST TAPE at Barbican
By Stuart King Friday, May 2 2025, 13:21
In a joint production with Culture Ireland, the Barbican are hosting Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett’s KRAPP'S LAST TAPE. But is the experience worth a visit to London’s notoriously labyrinthine brutalist premises?
Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape at the Barbican.
01 May
Reviews
Review: MY MASTER BUILDER at Wyndham’s Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, May 1 2025, 09:49
American writer Lila Raicek utilises Ibsen’s old-man-besotted warhorse as the scaffold for this modernist marital recrimination play, but the end result — MY MASTER BUILDER — is very much a beast of its own, albeit that some of the dialogue wouldn’t appear out of place at an airport paperback concession.
Elizabeth Debicki (Mathilde), Ewan McGregor (Henry Solness) in My Master Builder at Wyndham's Theatre. photograph by Johan Persson.
30 Apr
Reviews
Review: TAMBO AND BONES at Stratford East
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 30 2025, 21:07
What starts as a bizarrely incongruous combination of two black actors delivering a hobo pastiche in which one repeatedly begs for quarters, (think Waiting For Godot or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead overlayered with dust bowl/plantation motifs), morphs into a global rap tour as Tambo and Bones pursue the money and success central to the American Dream.
Clifford Samuel and Daniel Ward in Tambo & Bones (c) Jane Hobson
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