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Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
10 Feb
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Stuart King

Review: PHAEDRA at National Theatre, Lyttelton

Scholars would accept that the Greeks knew a thing or two about mankind’s foibles, failings and fallibilities. Undoubtedly determined to ensure that the theatrical fashion for exploring human vice and perversion would never die-out, their dramatists oft returned to (and rehashed) yarns of gore, exploring incest, infanticide, lust, regicide and an assortment of other unpalatable proclivities, to excess.

Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan PerssonCast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson

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How Not To Drown - Theatre Royal Stratford East
01 Feb
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Stuart King

Review: HOW NOT TO DROWN at Theatre Royal Stratford East

With just five performers — including Dritan Kastrati, on whose real life experiences HOW NOT TO DROWN is based — Stratford East continues its association with hard-hitting drama which gives voice to the under-represented, victimised and dispossessed.

How Not To Drown - Theatre Royal Stratford EastSam Reuben and the Company of How Not To Drown. Credit Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.

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The Elephant Song
24 Jan
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Stuart King

Review: THE ELEPHANT SONG at Park Theatre

The Elephant Song Psychiatric wards have provided a rich source of material for writers and dramatists over the decades, but in a world where our mental health and well-being are discussed and evaluated more openly than at any time in human history, does Nicholas Billon’s psychological drama THE ELEPHANT SONG have anything interesting to say to a modern audience?

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The Unfriend
19 Jan
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Stuart King

Review: THE UNFRIEND at Criterion Theatre

The Unfriend Holiday friendships (especially those made on a cruise ship) aren’t meant to go beyond the holiday, right? Everybody knows that. It’s one of those dependable unwritten rules! Unless that is, you are Elsa Jean Krakowski, a brash American widow and Trump-devotee from Denver, with something of a disturbing history, who has just emailed to advise she’s standing outside your front door.

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Allegiance
18 Jan
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Stuart King

Review: ALLEGIANCE at Charing Cross Theatre

Allegiance Based on the real life recollections of George Takei (known to millions as Mr Sulu in Star Trek), writers Lorenzo Thione and Jay Kuo have created ALLEGIANCE based on a book by Marc Acito.

The familial divisions which resulted from this rarely explored aspect of the Second World War, are illuminated and dissected in musical form - with heart-rending results.

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