Stuart King
19 Sep
Reviews 
Review: THE LISTENING ROOM at Gerry's Studio, Stratford East
By Stuart King Tuesday, September 19 2017, 08:44
Victims and perpetrators of violent crime coming together in search of understanding and forgiveness from one another, sounds like a strange and jarring premise for a piece of theatre, but it works surprisingly well - largely due to the fact that the evening is based entirely on two real events. One involves an unprovoked attack at a train station and another where a random beating leads to a road traffic death.
17 Aug
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Review: BOOM at Theatre503
By Stuart King Thursday, August 17 2017, 11:48
Jules (Will Merrick), a marine biologist with an unlucky family history, places a personals ad offering "sex to change the course of the world". He's about to be joined at his underground lab by Jo (Nicole Sawyerr), whose expectations of a wild night of no strings sex, are understandably running high. Little does she realise the potential evolutionary significance this meeting could have for the species.
04 Aug
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Review: APOLOGIA at Trafalgar Studios
By Stuart King Friday, August 4 2017, 22:07
Among the personal possessions I've accumulated during many years of theatregoing, is a programme signed for me by Stockard Channing at the stage door of the Comedy Theatre in 1991. Back then, she was garnering plaudits for her turn as empathically naïve Ouisa Kittredge in Six Degrees of Separation. I am delighted to report that in Apologia, which has just opened at Trafalgar Studios, Channing (now aged 73), delivers an equally noteworthy performance which is set to dazzle West End audiences.
03 Jul
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Preview Report: THE MENTOR at the Vaudeville Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, July 3 2017, 10:32
Benjamin Rubin, who, aged 24 penned his first and only truly groundbreaking work and in later years has literary notoriety but also bills to pay, accepts the invitation of a wealthy foundation to act as temporary mentor to Martin Wegner (played with jittery arrogance by Daniel Weyman) who is their latest ‘voice of his generation’ discovery. The result of this uncomfortable pairing (which seems flawed and motivationally unconvincing), is a week spent in the country: mentoring, nit-picking, fretting about frogs, generally mis-communicating and taking every opportunity to treat the Foundation’s administrator with disdain.
17 Jun
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Review: BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES at the National Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, June 17 2017, 08:10
BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES which enjoyed its world premiere at the Dorfman on 7th June, is Inua Ellams’ third play at the National. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the title, the action - or more accurately, the barbed dialogue exchanges - all take place within the backdrop of a barber shop and (on the basis that differing parts of the world may be home to differing opinions), we are treated to six establishments, located in London, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra and Johannesburg.
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