Stuart King
20 Aug
Reviews 
Review: THE FABULIST at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, August 20 2024, 12:45
These days, Giovanni Paisiello’s name will only be known to the most ardent of Opera buffa/Commedia dell’Arte aficionados. However, during his lifetime he was celebrated as one of the greatest living composers, enjoying considerable royal patronage, fame and renown. Eclipsed by the likes of Rossini and Mozart his work is rarely performed today, but the music for his opera The Imaginary Astrologer has been used by James P Farwell in creating THE FABULIST.
The cast of The Fabulist at Charing Cross Theatre. Photo by Mark Senior.
15 Aug
Reviews
Review: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at Globe Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, August 15 2024, 09:48
The proclivities and shenanigans of ancient world titans was brought to a wider audience in 1606, when William Shakespeare retold the tale of the Roman triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar and Lepidus… and a woman of legendary beauty.
Nadia Nadarajah as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare's Globe (c. Ellie Kurttz)
14 Aug
Reviews
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
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