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By Stuart King Tuesday, May 13 2025, 10:00
Certainly on paper, HOUSE OF GAMES has everything going for it. Penned originally by David Mamet as a film screenplay, the stage version was created for the Almeida back in 2010 by Richard Bean who recently dazzled at this very theatre with the sharply observed Reykjavik.
Robin Soans (Joey) Siôn Tudor Owen (George) Andrew Whipp (Bobby) Richard Harrington (Mike) Lisa Dillon (Margaret) in House of Games. Photo by Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 13 2025, 00:00
Mischief continue the successful farce formula with THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES which has opened at the Noël Coward Theatre. It does exactly what it says on the tin and you’ll know exactly what to expect if you have been to a performance of The Play That Goes Wrong (which recently celebrated 10 years in the West End), or indeed, any of the other titles involving Peter Pan, Magic and a Robbery.
Henry Shields and Adele James in The Comedy About Spies at Noël Coward Theatre.
By Stuart King Saturday, May 10 2025, 15:31
SNAP! (as stated on the posters) or SNAP: A New Musical (as stated just about everywhere else), is a ghastly mishmash of incoherent ideas which the creator has allowed himself to run away with. David O’Brien who is responsible (in the worst possible way) for the book, music and lyrics, should not be shocked when reviewers point out that the end result of his efforts, is a convoluted identity crisis.
The Cast of SNAP at King's Head Theatre. Photo by Stuart Yeatman.
By Stuart King Friday, May 9 2025, 08:56
With a book by David Ives, music and lyrics by the late great Stephen Sondheim, HERE WE ARE is apparently inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, (presumably the goings on in The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Exterminating Angel). This week, the show completed its transatlantic migration and landed at National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage.
The cast of Here We Are at the National Theatre. Photographer Marc Brenner
By Stuart King Thursday, May 8 2025, 09:51
Before Thatcher’s hooray Henry capitalism, before Blair’s Brit-pop socialism, there were Oxford educated centre-left politicos who bestrode the land looking every bit a potential future PM as Labour’s pipe-smoking Harold Wilson or his Tory counterpart, the yacht-sailing Ted Heath.
Gang Of Three - Alan Cox, Hywel Morgan, Colin Tierney - photographer Manuel Harlan
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