Stuart King
09 Mar
Reviews 
Review: DEAR MARTIN at Arcola
By Stuart King Sunday, March 9 2025, 07:37
Author of DEAR MARTIN, playwright Madeleine Brettingham is better known for her television comedy scriptwriting and from this easily pigeonholed, ludicrously premised piece, it’s not difficult to see why she has a string of credits to her name.
Dear Martin, Arcola Theatre.
05 Mar
Reviews
Review: WHITE ROSE at Marylebone Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 5 2025, 08:19
WHITE ROSE THE MUSICAL plays at Marylebone Theatre until 13 April, that is, assuming the cast’s voices hold out and they aren’t hospitalised due to a surfeit of melancholy and over earnestness.
The cast of White Rose. Photo Marc Brenner.
04 Mar
Reviews
Review: ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, March 4 2025, 11:12
We discover Violet and Leonard in a hotel room during the war — April 1942 in fact — the night before he is due to be shipped off. Their inexperience and nervousness around each other, betrays thoughts of more portentous matters which must surely have overshadowed and overwhelmed many a young couple wanting to express their love and commitment for each other before the inevitable separation.
Cassie Bradley and Barney White in One Day When We Were Young at Park Theatre. Credit Danny Kaan.
28 Feb
Reviews
Review: DEEPSTARIA at Sadler’s Wells
By Stuart King Friday, February 28 2025, 12:10
As with all of Wayne McGregor’s new works, DEEPSTARIA has been a hotly awaited dance piece with its much vaunted dark voids and mysterious spaces igniting an anticipatory buzz and collective salivation among dance aficionados. Sadly, what was presented at Sadler’s Wells Thursday evening opener, was a ponderous primordial soup which managed to plumb the depths of tedium, irrespective of the dancers’ best efforts.
Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria, Company Wayne McGregor, Photo credit Ravi Deepres.
27 Feb
Reviews
Review: THE LAST LAUGH at Noel Coward Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 27 2025, 16:39
What happens when you put three of yesteryear’s British comedy giants in the same room? Well obviously they tell jokes, rib each other, engage in banter and reminisce. Such is the premise of THE LAST LAUGH in which Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse find themselves backstage sharing a dressing room.
THE LAST LAUGH at Noël Coward Theatre. Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe), Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse). Photo Pamela Raith.
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