Stuart King
09 Nov
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Review: BALLETBOYZ - ENGLAND ON FIRE at Sadler’s Wells
By Stuart King Thursday, November 9 2023, 09:26
The once sexy and experimental dance troupe BalletBoyz plays a limited run at Sadler’s Wells where they deliver their latest commentary on the world around them, with ENGLAND ON FIRE.
BalletBoys - Photo credit George Piper
08 Nov
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Review: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, November 8 2023, 10:55
Alun Armstrong as Jack Kirk, a former policeman who secretly recounts his amusing case recollections onto a tape recorder for posterity, is a curmudgeonly geriatric who is in a state of constant verbal combat with his wife of 70 years. As the couple concede they are no longer capable of looking after themselves, their children make plans to sell their home and organise some comfort for the pair in their dotage — assuming they live that long!
To Have and To Hold company. Credit Marc Brenner.
01 Nov
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Review: KING LEAR at Wyndham's Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, November 1 2023, 21:00
Kenneth Branagh both directs and stars as King Lear, Shakespeare’s foolishly narcissistic father who allows flattery (and then the lack of it), to cloud his judgement of familial love when deciding how to divide his kingdom between three daughters of differing worthiness.
Kenneth Branagh in KING LEAR. Credit: Johan Persson
31 Oct
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Review: SPUTNIK SWEETHEART at Arcola
By Stuart King Tuesday, October 31 2023, 10:02
Haruki Murakami whose works have been translated into at least 50 languages, is a renowned Japanese writer of novels, essays and short stories. Here, his ethereal prose is given the stage treatment through an adaptation by Bryony Lavery, directed by Melly Still.
Sputnik Sweetheart at Arcola Theatre. Credit Alex Brenner
25 Oct
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Review: THE CONFESSIONS National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Wednesday, October 25 2023, 10:31
The National Theatre Lyttelton’s stage currently conveys places and situations pivotal in the life experience of one particular Australian woman. Her journey starts as uncertain-yet-optimistic schoolgirl in 1943 and onwards as she abandons uni under pressure from her mother, endures (then ends) an unhappy marriage, indulges a love of art, is raped, travels, and finally finds happiness with an older man in London before having his children and losing him to the natural order of things.
The Confessions - Lilit Lesser, Jerry Killick, Pamela Rabe, Eryn Jean Norvill, Joe Bannister - Photo by Christophe Raynaud de Lage
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