Stuart King
25 Sep
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Review: BEAUTIFUL THING at Theatre Royal Stratford East
By Stuart King Monday, September 25 2023, 08:35
Thirty years have passed since this reviewer last sat in the stalls watching a theatre production of BEAUTIFUL THING, Jonathan Harvey’s groundbreaking, coming-of-age, coming-to-terms, coming-out-gay parable, set on a Thamesmead council estate.
Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge (Tony) and Shvorne Marks (Sandra) in Beautiful Thing at Stratford East. Photographer The Other Richard.
25 Sep
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Review: THE FATHER AND THE ASSASSIN at National Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, September 25 2023, 08:19
Playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar traces the life of the Nathuram Godse — journalist, nationalist and one time devoted follower of India’s spiritual leader Gandhi, who through radicalisation became his assassin.
Hiran Abeysekera in THE FATHER AND THE ASSASSIN at the NT. Photo by Marc Brenner
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
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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
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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
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