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By Stuart King Friday, May 9 2025, 08:56
With a book by David Ives, music and lyrics by the late great Stephen Sondheim, HERE WE ARE is apparently inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, (presumably the goings on in The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Exterminating Angel). This week, the show completed its transatlantic migration and landed at National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage.
The cast of Here We Are at the National Theatre. Photographer Marc Brenner
By Stuart King Thursday, May 8 2025, 09:51
Before Thatcher’s hooray Henry capitalism, before Blair’s Brit-pop socialism, there were Oxford educated centre-left politicos who bestrode the land looking every bit a potential future PM as Labour’s pipe-smoking Harold Wilson or his Tory counterpart, the yacht-sailing Ted Heath.
Gang Of Three - Alan Cox, Hywel Morgan, Colin Tierney - photographer Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 7 2025, 12:31
AN OAK TREE — Tim Crouch has dusted off his 1hr 15min scripted play from 2005 in which the novelty unknown is a different celebrity on stage with him at each performance. With only an hour beforehand to become acquainted with the premise and format, each willing victim in this exercise, submits themselves entirely to Crouch’s direction of their onstage movements and dialogue. It’s an extreme trust exercise and not everyone will reach the end unscathed.
Jessie Buckley and Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree at the Young Vic. © Pamela Raith.
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 6 2025, 23:00
On his thirteeenth birthday, a young Orthodox Jew realises that he is gay but is rebuked by his father as an embarrassment when he effeminately crosses his legs for a photograph during his bar mitzvah celebrations. The FAYGELE of the title, is Yiddish for a little bird, but is more commonly used as a slur which loosely translates as faggot.
Clara Francis, Ilan Galkoff, and Ben Caplan. Faygele, Marylebone Theatre.
By Miriam Gibson Sunday, May 4 2025, 20:53
“What would we do without the tube?” laments James, “We’d have to take the bus everywhere!”. Cue shudders from Cockfosters’ cast and audience. Writer-director Hamish Clayton’s comedy explores Londoners’ love-hate relationship with our underground transportation system, particularly the tribulations of taking the Piccadilly line.
Cockfosters production image.
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