Stuart King
21 Feb
Reviews 
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
By Stuart King Friday, February 21 2025, 08:56
A confectioner’s deluge of pink ticker-tape, drifts slowly from high above Drury Lane’s stage, as disco tracks and rumbustious tomfoolery play-out below. It is undoubtedly what Shakespeare himself would have wanted and after a couple of less-than-loved-Lloyds, wonder boy director Jamie is back in his groove, wowing the masses with his accessible versions of the classics. Here, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING succumbs with minimal resistance to his magical makeover.
The cast of Much Ado About Nothing. Photo by Manuel Harlan
20 Feb
Reviews
Review: TRASH at Peacock Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 20 2025, 09:03
TRASH! Super silly, super structured, super rehearsed, super funny. A riot of unabashed, fizzing, physical mayhem. Choreographed to within an inch of its life yet managing to exude a wholly ad-libbed vibe, TRASH! could be exactly the ingredient to bring a smile in an otherwise dreary February. What’s not to love?
Trash production image.
19 Feb
Reviews
Review: KENREX at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 19 2025, 09:48
Until the 15th March (although a West End transfer must surely be on the cards after this evening’s rapturous opening), London theatregoers get a chance to witness for themselves the hard hitting and mesmerising true crime drama KENREX, in which the townsfolk of a small backwater, rise up and take back control after suffering a decade of tyranny at the hands of one man.
Jack Holden in KENREX. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
18 Feb
Reviews
Review: EAST IS SOUTH at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 18 2025, 09:02
What happens when the boffins of Artificial Intelligence, including a Russian emigré who now works for the NSA, decide to test their code writing abilities against the age old question around God and man? The answer as always, depends on how the question is asked and how receptive humankind is to an answer it may not be ready to hear.
Cliff Curtis, Kaya Scodelario and Nathalie Armin in East is South at Hampstead Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
17 Feb
Reviews
Review: STALLED at King's Head Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, February 17 2025, 13:12
As a theatre reviewer, I frequently encounter commendable projects. Projects where the individuals involved are invested, engaged and obviously talented. But sometimes, even with such credentials the end result doesn’t quite pay off. It pains me to report that such an instance is STALLED, which recently opened at Angel Islington’s indomitable institution The King’s Head Theatre, where new seating was especially in-stalled for the occasion.
Grace Venus in Stalled at King's Head Theatre. Photo Johan Persson
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