Stuart King
20 Apr
Reviews 
Review: Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) Gabriela Carrizo / Jiří Kylián / Crystal Pite Simon McBurney at Sadlers Wells
By Stuart King Thursday, April 20 2023, 10:14
In three parts, the evening begins with a weirdly ethereal scene by The Hague’s renowned Nederlands Dans Theater company entitled La Ruta by Gabriela Carrizo. A flickering light at a bus shelter is all that illuminates a nearby night-time main road, where various people and animals become roadkill.
La Ruta - Picture by Rahi Rezvani
19 Apr
Reviews
Review: DANCING AT LUGHNASA at National Theatre Olivier
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 19 2023, 10:06
Brian Friel’s 1990 play set during harvest time at the village of Ballybeg somewhere in County Donegal, is intensely evocative of a world which has almost entirely disappeared. At the home of the five Mundy Sisters before the onset of the Second World War, there’s a daily battle to make ends meet whilst looking after the men in their lives — Uncle Jack (Ardal O’Hanlon) just returned from the leper colony in Ugandaand seven year old Michael Evans whose childhood memories recounted as an adult (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) serve to narrate the piece.
Siobhán McSweeney (Maggie), Bláithín Mac Gabhann (Rose), Louisa Harland (Agnes), Justine Mitchell (Kate) & Alison Oliver (Chris) in Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
15 Apr
Reviews
Review: LITTLE SCRATCH at New Diorama
By Stuart King Saturday, April 15 2023, 11:05
Arts journo Rebecca Watson’s widely praised debut novel little scratch was given the theatrical treatment by Miriam Battye and first presented as a performance piece at Hampstead Theatre, at the tail end of 2021. Directed by Katie Mitchell with an accompanying rhythmic score by Melanie Wilson, theatregoers get another chance to witness this extraordinarily original and uncompromising flow of consciousness piece, at the New Diorama.
little scratch - New Diorama Theatre - L-R Eve Ponsonby, Eleanor Henderson, Rebekah Murrell & Ragevan Vasan (photo by Ellie Kurttz)
14 Apr
Reviews
Review: VARDY V ROONEY: THE WAGATHA CHRISTIE TRIAL at Ambassadors Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 14 2023, 10:46
The term popular culture used to encompass any art form embraced by the majority and especially the young, but since the advent of social media — as distinct from tabloid newspapers — virtually anyone of the most minor notoriety in any sphere (and his wife), have been elevated to the status of a celebrity. Indeed the word has itself become something of a joke and a byword for mediocrity and worthlessness within pop culture circles.
Verna Vyas and Lucy May Barker (Vardy) in Vardy v Rooney The Wagatha Christie Trial - Photo Pamela Raith
07 Apr
Reviews
Review: THE DRY HOUSE at Marylebone Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 7 2023, 08:37
Mairead McKinley, Kathy Kiera Clarke and Carla Langley breathe life into three, heartbreakingly damaged characters Chrissy, Claire and Heather in a work recently created by writer director Eugene O’Hare. Now playing at the fresh new Marylebone Theatre, THE DRY HOUSE forms part of the venue’s inaugural season.
Kathy Kiera Clarke in The Dry House at Marylebone Theatre. Photo Manuel Harlan.
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