Stuart King
26 May
Reviews 
Review: OPERATION MINCEMEAT at Fortune Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, May 26 2023, 21:48
When a batch of hurriedly typed documents marked "Top Secret" were finally declassified in the 1950s, they revealed possibly the single most ludicrous premise for espionage ever devised, and although Operation Mincemeat very nearly didn’t happen, it ultimately changed the course of the Second World War.
The cast of Operation Mincemeat at the Fortune Theatre
25 May
Reviews
Review: INVISIBLE at Bush Theatre Studio
By Stuart King Thursday, May 25 2023, 23:01
An actor whose favourite sister died aged eleven and who struggles to maintain a relationship with the mother of his daughter, recounts through humour and anger, the tribulations of being unseen.
Nikhil Parmar in INVISIBLE at Bush Theatre. Photo credit Henri T.
24 May
Reviews
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
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