Stuart King
22 Sep
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Review: PETER GRIMES at ENO London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, September 22 2023, 09:25
Benjamin Britten’s 1945 ethereal opera based on George Crabbe’s poem The Borough (1810), delves deeply into the psyche of a small Suffolk coastal community where following a terrible event, an outsider becomes the focus of a concerted campaign of gossip and victimisation.
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - English National Opera - London Coliseum
21 Sep
Reviews
Review: REBECCA at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, September 21 2023, 08:37
Sitting in the stalls of the Charing Cross theatre last evening, I swear there was a discernible creaking of timber. Perhaps not the beams of Manderley about to fall into a smouldering ruin, but more likely Daphne du Maurier shifting restlessly in her coffin, politely inquiring who had had the temerity to stage such a well-meaning yet lacklustre musical version of her classic Rebecca.
Richard Carson and Lauren Jones in REBECCA at the Charing Cross Theatre. Photo by Mark Senior
20 Sep
Reviews
Review: IT’S HEADED STRAIGHT TOWARDS US at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, September 20 2023, 08:44
When this reviewer was still doing his best to wear a school uniform in a scruffy, disaffected manner, The Young Ones were all the rage on TV. Forty years on and two of that troop of anarchic comedians — Adrian Edmondson (who eschewed Ade some while ago) and Nigel Planer (the lank-haired drippy Young One) have pooled their collective writing talents to bring us IT’S HEADED STRAIGHT TOWARDS US, which opened this week at Park Theatre.
Rufus Hound (Gary) in It's Headed Straight Towards Us at the Park Theatre. Credit Pamela Raith Photography
19 Sep
Reviews
Review: ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, September 19 2023, 10:07
The life of a Silicon Valley software engineer Merril (MyAnna Buring) implodes when her younger sister Angie (Dakota Blue Richards) vanishes. A year passes during which police make little headway in the case, so Merril begins to trawl through the online digital footprint her sister has left behind and creates an AI algorithm from the data — but will the result be a familiar (albeit computer generated) companion, or open a Pandora’s Box of other information?
MyAnna Buring in ANTHROPOLOGY at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit The Other Richard.
15 Sep
Reviews
Review: THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at @sohoplace
By Stuart King Friday, September 15 2023, 08:17
When the third son in a family of vibrant and committed rugby fans succumbs to a swimming accident whilst on holiday with his brothers in Portugal, the world changes overnight — for everyone. THE LITTLE BIG THINGS is a zingingly fresh story which manages to tick all the right boxes as it combines comedy with a soupçon of schmaltz, but mercifully manages to avoid musical theatre cliché and cynicism.
The cast of THE LITTLE BIG THINGS at Soho Place. Photo by Pamela Raith.
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