Stuart King
24 May
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Review: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse / Rachid Ouramdane CORPS EXTRÊMES
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 24 2023, 09:40
Circus arts and contemporary dance coalesce in a giddy and seemingly gravity-defying visual onslaught at Sadlers Wells this week, as acrobats assail walls and demonstrate feats of strength and balance with grace and panache.
Corps Extrêmes - RachidOuramdane © Pascale Cholette
21 May
Reviews
Review: BLEAK EXPECTATIONS at The Criterion
By Stuart King Sunday, May 21 2023, 21:54
Zany Dickensian-inspired mayhem has landed at Piccadilly Circus in the form of a period farce with more Charles Dickens references than you could feasibly shake an ebony silver-topped cane at — and there really couldn’t be a more fitting venue to host such a Victorian comedy melodrama, than The Criterion.
Serena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel Harlan
19 May
Reviews
Review: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN at Soho Place
By Stuart King Friday, May 19 2023, 09:29
Originally published as a short story in The New Yorker magazine back in 1997, Annie Proulx’s sensitive tale of two young cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar struggling with poverty in rural Wyoming, was turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2005 and perhaps more surprisingly, an opera in 2014. Here, the story receives a further treatment — this time as a play by Ashley Robinson, supported with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells.
Brokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel Harlan
19 May
Reviews
Review: THE DUMB WAITER & A SLIGHT ACHE at Greenwich Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, May 19 2023, 09:16
Greenwich Theatre, just a stones throw from Cutty Sark DLR, is currently offering a Pinter double bill of late 1950s dark comedies. Some consider both The Dumb Waiter and The Slight Ache mini-masterworks given that they examine power, influence, susceptibility, suspicion, confusion, perception and assumption.
17 May
Reviews
Review: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 17 2023, 09:13
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING — Frank Loesser’s rarely revived 1961 Broadway collaboration with Abe Burrows which pitches the avaricious, the idiotic and the eternally romantic side-by-side in business, has begun a limited run at Southwark Playhouse.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Southwark Playhouse. Photography by Pamela Raith
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