Stuart King
08 Apr
Reviews 
Review: ANOTHER AMERICA at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 8 2022, 09:41
Park Theatre has proved itself an exceedingly productive nursery for developing new work during its first 9 years and despite the hiatus of lockdown, Finsbury Park’s creative theatrical hub continues to encourage, support and develop the output of both those in the spotlight and other creative talents behind the scenes.
06 Apr
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Review: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 6 2022, 09:48
Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ third collaboration ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, — a satirical absurdist comedy musical from 1964 — is set in a small town where the corrupt local politicians wield influence over absolutely everything from the local mental asylum to the narrative around ‘miracles’ (which are used to bolster tourism and fill City Hall’s coffers).
Samuel Clifford, Teddy Hinde, Renan Teodoro, Marisha Morgan, Jensen Tudtud, Jordan Broatch, Nathan Taylor, Kathryn Akin, Shane Convery, and Hana Ichijo, in Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse. Photo Danny With A Camera.
05 Apr
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Review: THE FEVER SYNDROME at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, April 5 2022, 09:46
Renowned fertility trailblazer Professor Richard Myers, (Robert Lindsay) has a degenerative condition. The imminent presentation to him of a lifetime achievement award causes his 3 grown offspring to descend upon the New York brownstone where they grew-up and which he still inhabits with his third wife Megan (Alexandra Gilbreath who acts as carer to his irascible invalid). Reliving experiences and reverting to childhood behaviours, the three siblings display their vastly differing personalities as they discuss their father’s illness, his money and even how to secure their share of it when he passes.
Nancy Allsop, Lisa Dillon, Bo Poraj, Alex Waldmann, Jake Fairbrother, Alexandra Gilbreath, Robert Lindsay & Sam Marks. Photo By Ellie Kurttz
04 Apr
Reviews
Review: THE WEATHERING / SOLO ECHO / DGV - DANSE À GRANDE VITESSE (ballet triple bill) at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden
By Stuart King Monday, April 4 2022, 12:20
One of the more perverse and unexpected impacts of the pandemic lockdown, has been the reduction in workforce within many sections of the arts, including those departments which support the back office functions for institutions like the Royal Opera House. The hard pushed and over-stretched Press Office team managed to miscommunicate dates for the opening of La Traviata to this particular reviewer, so rather than waste my journey into Covent Garden this past Saturday, I accepted their offer of a house seat to review the ballet triple bill aimed at highlighting the talents of some of the newer bright lights of the dance fraternity. As is usual with such contrived amalgamations, it was an enjoyable but fairly mixed offering, where humanity flirted with death in a three-sectioned, mildly post-apocalyptic pas de deux.
01 Apr
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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
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