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By Miriam Gibson Friday, July 1 2022, 16:03
Twenty-three years after it opened on the West End, The Lion King is still performing to packed audiences. You can barely move through the Lyceum Theatre’s foyer without bumping into at least three Year Six classes on their end-of-term trip to London.
Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre.
By Stuart King Wednesday, June 29 2022, 17:28
In 1999 this reviewer first sat in the stalls of the Lyceum Theatre to witness the theatrical magic of the opening sequence of Disney’s The Lion King, during which the audience is gradually enveloped by wild creatures of the African plain come to pay homage to Mustafa and the arrival of his cub Simba.
By Stuart King Monday, June 20 2022, 10:39
A run-down, cheaply veneered wood-panelled office, sticks of dilapidated waiting room furniture, a gas heater and a wall mounted payphone which (when it rings), is answered “Car service” by the disparate group of constantly revolving drivers. We’re in a Pittsburgh Jitney - one of those cheap-not-legit taxi services used by the poorer spectrum of society and run by those needing to earn a few extra bucks.
By Stuart King Sunday, June 19 2022, 00:01
A considerable amount of cloak and dagger hype has surrounded Dave Davidson’s first produced play now shocking audiences at the Royal Court — as befits a playwright who (as the blurb suggested), has worked in the security industry for nearly four decades!
“When Ollie has his identity stolen on the internet, it’s bad enough. But soon it’s not just his online life collapsing – his real life is being stolen too. Who is the person really doing and saying these awful things? And who can Ollie trust to see the real him when the world sees him as a monster? Did the real him ever exist in the first place?”
Priyanga Burford, Siena Kelly, Jake Davies in That Is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
By Stuart King Friday, June 10 2022, 09:25
Taken to The Facility, an institution for corrective measures which exists in an unspecified future time and place, we learn how two inmates Alix and Marcus undergo curative therapy and hope to avoid being sent to the Other Place from which no-one ever returns.
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