Stuart King
05 Apr
Reviews 
Review: THE FEVER SYNDROME at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, April 5 2022, 09:46
Renowned fertility trailblazer Professor Richard Myers, (Robert Lindsay) has a degenerative condition. The imminent presentation to him of a lifetime achievement award causes his 3 grown offspring to descend upon the New York brownstone where they grew-up and which he still inhabits with his third wife Megan (Alexandra Gilbreath who acts as carer to his irascible invalid). Reliving experiences and reverting to childhood behaviours, the three siblings display their vastly differing personalities as they discuss their father’s illness, his money and even how to secure their share of it when he passes.
Nancy Allsop, Lisa Dillon, Bo Poraj, Alex Waldmann, Jake Fairbrother, Alexandra Gilbreath, Robert Lindsay & Sam Marks. Photo By Ellie Kurttz
04 Apr
Reviews
Review: THE WEATHERING / SOLO ECHO / DGV - DANSE À GRANDE VITESSE (ballet triple bill) at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden
By Stuart King Monday, April 4 2022, 12:20
One of the more perverse and unexpected impacts of the pandemic lockdown, has been the reduction in workforce within many sections of the arts, including those departments which support the back office functions for institutions like the Royal Opera House. The hard pushed and over-stretched Press Office team managed to miscommunicate dates for the opening of La Traviata to this particular reviewer, so rather than waste my journey into Covent Garden this past Saturday, I accepted their offer of a house seat to review the ballet triple bill aimed at highlighting the talents of some of the newer bright lights of the dance fraternity. As is usual with such contrived amalgamations, it was an enjoyable but fairly mixed offering, where humanity flirted with death in a three-sectioned, mildly post-apocalyptic pas de deux.
01 Apr
Reviews
Review: COCK at The Ambassadors Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, April 1 2022, 12:15
Whilst the title of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play may intrigue and titillate some potential theatregoers, it may also deter others. But rest assured, there is no gratuitous nudity and the couple of short-lived sex scenes are conveyed with subtlety and by means of exquisitely fluid physical choreography in Marianne Elliot’s beautifully charged and nuanced production now playing at the Ambassadors.
Jade Anouka and Jonathan Bailey in Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre. Photo Brinkhoff/Moegenburg
31 Mar
Reviews
Review: ONE NIGHT WITH ROBBIE WILLIAMS at The Courtyard Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 31 2022, 12:27
The Courtyard Theatre (English National Opera’s former rehearsal and workshop space in Hoxton which was itself a former public library) hosts a short run of Matt Littleson’s new single-hander play One Night With Robbie Williams.
24 Mar
Reviews
Review: STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY at the Bridge Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 24 2022, 08:59
Ordinarily, the winning combination of a new David Hare play with the presence of a bona fide movie star like Ralph Fiennes assuming its lead role, would set pulses racing and box office tills ringing. But whilst the run may have virtually sold-out before it opened due to the star’s cachet, the piece is something of a didactic dirge with only momentary flashes of levity and pathos. It’s a far cry from the playwright’s heady power-output of “Racing Demon”, “Amy’s View”, “Plenty” and “Pravda”, which now feel like very distant successes by comparison.
Dani Moseley as Carol Amis in Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
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