Stuart King
13 Jul
Reviews 
Review: VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, July 13 2024, 19:13
Following a curtailed opening night a few weeks ago, Hampstead Theatre enacted some changes to their production of Christopher Hampton’s VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN based on Stefan Zweig’s novella, which itself gave rise to a movie by Max Ophüls (as Letter From An Unknown Woman). The play is now up and running on the main stage.
Nigel Hastings, Natalie Simpson and James Corrigan in Visit From An Unknown Woman, credit Marc Brenner
11 Jul
Reviews
Review: SLAVE PLAY at Noel Coward
By Stuart King Thursday, July 11 2024, 09:01
Another Broadway transfer has just landed in the West End, and given London’s multicultural make-up, together with its largely accepting normalisation of therapy and interracial couples’ counselling, it should prove an interesting, welcome and altogether exciting and challenging addition to the capital’s theatre skyline. On Broadway, SLAVE PLAY secured a record breaking 12 Tony nominations for a play, and if this evening’s opening was anything to go by, it may just achieve an equivalent feat this side of the Atlantic.
Slave Play at Noel Coward Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray
11 Jul
Reviews
Review: ALMA MATER at Almeida
By Stuart King Thursday, July 11 2024, 08:52
At its heart, Kendall Feaver’s play ALMA MATER deals with the ever widening gap in the differing generational approaches to feminism. Set on a fictitious university campus, a student Paige (Liv Hill) claims to have been sexually assaulted and at first wants the experience to simply go away. Others see the incident as a rallying call to end what they perceive is an endemic rape culture largely condoned by silence.
Alma Mater at Almeida Theatre.
10 Jul
Reviews
Review: I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL at King’s Head
By Stuart King Wednesday, July 10 2024, 13:00
The brainchild of Alexander S. Bermange, I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL (which plays a short residency at the King’s Head Theatre until 21st July before continuing its national tour), follows in the strong British tradition of adding a musical twist to a subject worthy of the merest smidgeon of mockery. Here, everyone from the eager stage school auditionee, to the self-indulgent jaded diva, (not to mention badly behaved audience members — including theatre critics), come in for a justly deserved lampooning.
Julie Yamanee, Luke Harley, Jessi O'Donnell, and Sev Keoshgerian in I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at King’s Head Theatre. Credit Geraint Lewis.
06 Jul
Reviews
Review: YOUR LIE IN APRIL: THE MUSICAL at Harold Pinter
By Stuart King Saturday, July 6 2024, 12:43
The Japanese manga series Your Lie In April was originally developed and published over the course of 11 monthly magazine editions. It has since been used as the basis for an animé television series, a novel, a live action film (2016) and now a stage musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Carly Robyn Green and Tracy Miller. Friday evening’s sodden West End opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre, drew an eclectic mix of reviewers and showbiz faces, from the flamboyant Boy George to the unassuming Don Black. So did the rain dampen spirits, or was the overnight election result sufficient to keep everyone buoyed-up?
You Lie in April at Harold Pinter Theatre. Photo Craig Sugden.
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