Stuart King
14 Aug
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Review: FARM HALL at Theatre Royal Haymarket
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 14 2024, 11:15
Despite Germany having surrendered in Europe, the war remains ongoing in the Pacific where the Americans continue to meet resistance from the Japanese. With such a global backdrop, the quiet and dilapidated English country setting of FARM HALL becomes home for 6 forcibly interred German physicists, who spend their days acting-out Noel Coward plays (albeit stiltedly), playing chess, quizzing from newspapers and writing heavily self-censored letters home.
Julius D'Silva, Archie Backhouse, Forbes Masson, Alan Cox, Daniel Boyd, David Yelland in Farm Hall - Photo credit Alex Brenner
04 Aug
Reviews
Review: I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT? at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Sunday, August 4 2024, 13:26
Originally presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, this extended version of I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT? enjoys a short run at Park Theatre until 24th August.
Andy Umerah and Sophie Craig in I Love You, Now What? at Park Theatre. Photo Lidia Crisafulli.
03 Aug
Reviews
Review: A CHORUS LINE at Sadlers Wells
By Stuart King Saturday, August 3 2024, 11:26
Few Broadway musicals come more Broadway than A CHORUS LINE. It’s the sort of show which has critics scrambling for epithets and idioms long before any production has opened and in the main, you can be sure they will be tired reworkings of Singular(ly) Sensation(al)!
Redmand Rance (Mike Costa), Chloe Saunders (Val Clarke) and Rachel Jayne Picar (Connie Wong) in A Chorus Line at Sadler's Wells - © Marc Brenner
03 Aug
Reviews
Review: THE YEARS at Almeida
By Stuart King Saturday, August 3 2024, 11:01
For many, Annie Ernaux has only truly achieved prominence since becoming the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, at the tender age of 82. Her writing style deploys an awareness of self which resonates truth and simplicity through an unflinching depiction of events experienced, and the times in which they occurred. In THE YEARS (which is an English adaptation by Stephanie Bain, based on Director Eline Arbo’s Dutch translation of Les années) a cast of five women take us on a journey of the author’s life from 1941-2006… and what an incredible journey it proves to be.
Romola Garai in The Years at the Almeida Theatre. Credit Ali Wright
01 Aug
Reviews
Review: THE GRAPES OF WRATH at National Theatre Lyttelton
By Stuart King Thursday, August 1 2024, 11:40
With climate change and refugees very much a focus for politicians and humanitarian efforts in recent years, this unrelentingly dismal tale of enforced displacement and movement of people from their ruined farm homes and livelihoods, has never been more prescient. John Steinbeck’s seminal dust bowl diaspora yarn (which seemed so dry and dull to this reviewer when a teenager at school), has assumed a new and profound resonance through Frank Galati’s adaptation.
The Grapes of Wrath cast at the National Theatre. © Richard Hubert Smith.
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