Stuart King
16 May
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Review: LEAVES OF GLASS at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 16 2023, 11:16
Philip Ridley’s intense four-hander LEAVES OF GLASS receives a 3-week run at Park Theatre’s intimate space, a full 16 years since its original staging in Soho.
Joseph Potter in Leaves of Glass at Park Theatre. Photo by Mark Senior
05 May
Reviews
Review: AUGUST IN ENGLAND at Bush Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, May 5 2023, 09:13
Sir Lenny Henry tackles a sensitive subject close to his heart - the Windrush generation / scandal / on-going inequality / reparation doldrums. When it comes to nomenclature, pick your poison, because most of the sorry saga (like Grenfell and others) is precisely that — a poisonous stain on a nation which should have approached the matter of racial and social integration with compassion and honesty instead of treating its naturalised citizens as unwanted, expendable criminals.
Sir Lenny Henry as August in August in England at the Bush Theatre. Photography by Tristram Kenton
03 May
Reviews
Review: THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE at National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 3 2023, 07:48
It’s 1964 and movie star Richard Burton (Johnny Flynn) is in rehearsals for a production of Hamlet on Broadway. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the Welshman who tied the knot with Elizabeth Taylor (Tuppence Middleton) a mere 3 weeks before opening night. At the helm, Shakespearean titan Sir John Gielgud (Mark Gatiss) whose poetic appreciation for the text and manner of classical delivery, inform his directorial style and are entirely at odds with Burton’s ferocious modern vision.
The Motive and the Cue cast at the National Theatre. Photo by Mark Douet.
01 May
Reviews
Review: GLORY RIDE at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, May 1 2023, 10:37
When you learn that a musical theatre treatment is planned which will shine a spotlight on the heroic actions of a figure from history — especially an unassuming sporting hero who used his celebrity for good and at great personal risk — you long for the end result to be as iridescent as the man’s deeds. Sadly GLORY RIDE which tells the story of cyclist Gino Bartali (Josh St Clair) is an inadequate and disappointingly stilted effort.
Glory Ride - Fed Zanni as Mario Carita and the Company - Photographer Marc Brenner
27 Apr
Reviews
Review: F**KING MEN at Waterloo East Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, April 27 2023, 08:51
Joe DiPietro’s 2009 fringe favourite F**KING MEN has been treated to a timely update and has embarked on a run at the intimate Waterloo East venue.
Charlie Condou and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge in F**king Men. Photo Darren Bell
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