Stuart King
11 Feb
Reviews 
Review: THE HAYSTACK at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 11 2020, 11:02
The new Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre Roxana Silbert, marks her directing debut for the house with a scorchingly delivered exposé of our national security eavesdroppers and what happens when their unfettered access to personal data, reveals more than they expect.
Sarah Woodward (Hannah), Oliver Johnstone (Neil) and Enyi Okoronkwo (Zef) in The Haystack at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit Ellie Kurttz.
05 Feb
Reviews
Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 5 2020, 09:01
Composer and librettist Gerald Barry, has concocted a surrealist world using as its basis, an amalgamation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. The result is a riotous, fast-paced, fantastically energetic, kaleidoscopic Wonderland, for all ages, (though perhaps not all ears)!
30 Jan
Reviews
Review: PERSONA at The Riverside Studios
By Stuart King Thursday, January 30 2020, 23:00
Sister Alma (Olivier award winner, Alice Krige) is sent to a remote summer beach house tasked with helping renowned stage actress Elizabet (Nobuhle Mngcgweni) recover from a psychological breakdown and coax her from her self-imposed silence.
Alice Krige, William Close and Nobuhle Mngcwengi in Persona at the Riverside Studios. Photo by Pamela Raith.
24 Jan
Reviews
Review: HAPPILY EVER POOFTER at the King’s Head Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, January 24 2020, 08:36
With the merest hint of a fairytale set, a flounce of frilly cuffs and staggering boots (which occasionally defy gravity), Richard Watkins’ is absolutely slaying ‘em at the King’s Head Theatre in his creation, HAPPILY EVER POOFTER.
Photo by Rah Petherbridge.
22 Jan
Reviews
Review: THE CANARY AND THE CROW at The Arcola Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, January 22 2020, 13:02
Hull-based theatre company Middle Child follows its prize garnering tour around the provinces, with a much deserved 4-week London run at the Arcola of Daniel Ward’s semi-autobiographical The Canary and the Crow in which a working class black kid is offered a place at a prestigious grammar school. Let the culture clash commence.
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