Stuart King
20 Feb
News 
VAULT FESTIVAL at Waterloo
By Stuart King Monday, February 20 2023, 18:23
The Vault Festival is back, offering Londoners the chance to catch a dazzlingly array of performance types. Bursts of entertainment come in many and varied forms including cabaret, burlesque, comedy, dance, live music, circus, spoken word and theatrical productions - there's literally something for everyone and it really is worth taking the time to rummage through the listings where you're sure to find a performance to suit every taste, mood and pocket.
Juliette Cowan - Vault Festival
18 Feb
Reviews
Review: SYLVIA at The Old Vic
By Stuart King Saturday, February 18 2023, 10:49
It was perhaps predictable after Hamilton took the world by storm, that a steady stream of hip-hop fusion stage musicals would follow in its wake. For her story of activist Sylvia Pankhurst (daughter of the better known leader of the suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst), Kate Prince has incorporated funk, soul, and energetically choreographed dance to flesh-out her hip-hop production SYLVIA which began life back in 2018 as a far less impressive experiment than the finely-honed musical spectacular now playing at the Old Vic.
The Company in Sylvia at The Old Vic
15 Feb
Reviews
Review: WINDFALL at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 15 2023, 13:15
Fresh from its 2022 New York outing, Scooter Pietsch's chaotic comedy contrivance WINDFALL has landed at Southwark Playhouse for a limited London run. Directed by Mark Bell (The Play That Goes Wrong andThe Comedy About A Bank Robbery), Windfall follows a similar zany trajectory, as five abused office colleagues form a lottery syndicate and pin their hopes of a future without their vile boss, on winning a gargantuan jackpot. What could possibly go wrong?
Windfall at the Southwark Playhouse. Photo by Pamela Raith
14 Feb
Reviews
Review: WINNER’S CURSE at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 14 2023, 19:06
The stakes are high when a fragile ceasefire causes two countries to enter into peace talks. The strip of land they have been fighting over, could be any of a number of world conflict zones, but right now with Ukraine never far from anyone's mind, the scenario seems particularly prescient.
10 Feb
Reviews
Review: PHAEDRA at National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Friday, February 10 2023, 12:35
Scholars would accept that the Greeks knew a thing or two about mankind’s foibles, failings and fallibilities. Undoubtedly determined to ensure that the theatrical fashion for exploring human vice and perversion would never die-out, their dramatists oft returned to (and rehashed) yarns of gore, exploring incest, infanticide, lust, regicide and an assortment of other unpalatable proclivities, to excess.
Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
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