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By Stuart King Friday, May 30 2025, 11:14
Given the checkered history of ivory and its interconnectedness with pianos, Africa and slavery, it’s somewhat surprising that no-one has previously thought to conjure a theatre piece which manages to incorporate these elements and tie them in with Empire and Britain’s ongoing struggle with its legacy class system.
Anoushka Lucas sat at piano in Elephant at Menier Chocolate Factory. Credit Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Thursday, May 29 2025, 17:02
It’s the late 1960s and two teenage Punjabi sisters, part of a close-knit Sikh family in Wolverhampton, learn what it means to be part of a community which is forced to fight for acceptance and respect, whilst never losing sight of its history, traditions, culture and aspirations.
Jaz Singh Deol, Anoushka Deshmukh, Irfan Shamji, Omar Malik, and Kiran Landa in Marriage Material at Lyric Hammersmith. Photography by Helen Murray
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 28 2025, 22:21
If it weren’t a Sondheim show, you’d think it the height of pretension that any modern creative would choose to turn a 2,400 year old story by Aristophanes, into a musical.
The cast of The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse. Photo Pamela Raith
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 27 2025, 10:22
George Bernard Shaw it seems, continues to divide opinion. Any revivals of his work invariably elicit strong assertions from those who perceive a throbbing visceral combativeness, whilst others sense only dullness. With Imelda Staunton headlining MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION at the Garrick opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter, surely this once-banned warhorse from 1893 would draw both critical and box office success?
Bessie Carter (Vivie Warren) in Mrs Warren's Profession - credit Johan Persson.
By Stuart King Thursday, May 22 2025, 11:42
In what must count as one of the more unusual pieces of theatre currently available to Londoners, the diminutive subterranean stage at Jermyn Street basks in the russets and orange sand colours of North Africa for a beguiling human interest piece titled LITTLE BROTHER.
The cast of Little Brother at Jermyn Street Theatre. Photo by Steve Gregson.
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