Stuart King
11 Nov
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Review: DEAD FUNNY at the Vaudeville Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, November 11 2016, 14:24
Slapstick and pathos can make for uneasy bedfellows, it is then perhaps a mark of the quality of Terry Johnson's 1992 play Dead Funny that they marry so well and provide the basis for an evening of wonderful and emotionally moving entertainment.
A superb cast of five - each ideally suited to their part - deliver the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances of this revival, currently enjoying a run at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand.
15 Oct
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Review: THE DRESSER, Duke of York's Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, October 15 2016, 11:17
Back in 1983 I had the extraordinary privilege of witnessing Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay deliver two of the most theatrically ebullient performances about the grandeur and grimness of a life in luvvydom, ever committed to celluloid. This was Peter Yates film version of The Dresser which relied upon Ronald Harwood’s exceptional scripting of his original play to generate considerable critical success, including 5 Academy Award nominations.
19 Sep
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Review: GROUNDHOG DAY at The Old Vic
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:12
Bill Murray’s creation of Phil Connors, an egotistical and contemptuous TV weatherman who finds himself trapped in a time-loop whilst conducting an outside broadcast in Punxsutawney, a Pennsylvania backwater, achieved instant cult status when the original film of “Groundhog Day” was released in 1993. The backwater and its unsophisticated inhabitants, whose singular notoriety stems from the antics of a ground-dwelling rodent, (which legend tells can predict the weather depending on whether it spies its own shadow on February 2nd), is the focus of short-lived annual interest, but viewed with undisguised derision by our anti-hero.
19 Sep
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Review: THE ENTERTAINER at Garrick Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:04
Kenneth Branagh ends his season of plays at The Garrick with John Osborne’s 1957 commentary on post-war Britain’s parlous and weakened state, highlighted by the military and diplomatic inadequacies revealed in the government’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis, presaging the collapse of the British Empire.
16 Sep
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Review: THE ALCHEMIST at RSC Barbican
By Stuart King Friday, September 16 2016, 16:10
A resourceful manservant is left in charge of his master’s London home during an outbreak of plague and during his absence, falls-in with a pair of confidence tricksters. The resultant bargain struck between the three, provides the basis for Ben Johnson’s seminal 1610 work The Alchemist which is currently being presented in the main house of the Barbican, by the RSC.
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