Stuart King
25 Apr
Reviews 
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, April 25 2025, 09:40
When F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel THE GREAT GATSBY was published in 1925, it was generally considered to be a weaker effort than his earlier works This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. It wasn’t until distribution among American GIs during WWII that the novel gained widespread popularity and began to garner the reputation it holds to this day as a classic of American literature.
Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson.
24 Apr
Reviews
Review: PERSONAL VALUES at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, April 24 2025, 09:33
Personal Values, marks Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s Hampstead Theatre debut and occupies the smaller downstairs space until 17th May.
Holly Atkins as Veda and Rosie Cavaliero as Bea in Personal Values. Credit Helen Murray.
18 Apr
Reviews
Review: GHOSTS at Lyric Hammersmith
By Stuart King Friday, April 18 2025, 11:36
The Lyric Hammersmith’s new version of Ibsen’s GHOSTS proves less of a reworked adaptation and more of a dynamic transformation under Rachel O’Riordan‘s gripping direction.
Patricia Allison, Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells in Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo Credit Helen Murray.
16 Apr
Reviews
Review: HEISENBERG at Arcola Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 16 2025, 08:35
When at a train station, a young woman kisses a much older woman on the back of the neck, the act becomes a catalyst for the development of a quirky friendship. Just how random is the circumstance of that first kiss, presents an altogether more interesting matter for speculation and conjecture.
Jenny Galloway and Faline England in Heisenberg at the Arcola Theatre. Credit Charlie Flint
13 Apr
Reviews
Review: SHANGHAI DOLLS at Kiln Theatre
By Stuart King Sunday, April 13 2025, 12:19
In SHANGHAI DOLLS, Amy Ng has written a play nearly as ambitious as the two women at its core and yet the scope and decades-long timeline feels necessarily truncated as we traverse China’s Cultural Revolution and a friendship which turned into a bitter rivalry.
Gaby Wong and Millicent Wong in Shanghai Dolls at Kiln Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner.
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