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By Stuart King Tuesday, April 1 2025, 09:39
Beneath the dramatic and imposing sight of Venice’s eternal symbol (the winged lion of St Mark), the city bustles about its business. Catholic patronage and trading wealth no longer vie for supremacy, but instead make for easy and comfortable bedfellows in 1730.
Stiletto at Charing Cross Theatre. Photo Johan Persson.
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 26 2025, 16:55
In a direct transfer from Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre, Azuka Oforka’s debut play THE WOMEN OF LLANRUMNEY is set at a grand but faded plantation home overlooking Jamaica’s Blue Mountains.
The cast of The Women of Llanrumney at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Photo credit Chuko Cribb.
By Stuart King Sunday, March 23 2025, 11:00
Proud use of the title of Michael Jackson’s famous hit song in naming this production, would suggest that the producers of MAN IN THE MIRROR are actively challenging and defying the rabid cancel culture movement and instead choose to celebrate the performances, songs and stage shows of the late The King of Pop.
Man in the Mirror
By Stuart King Sunday, March 23 2025, 10:55
Two actors, dressed alike, finishing each other’s sentences or talking over one another combatively, give the distinct impression that they emanate from the same head and that things have reached a point of no return. Today will be different. Today will be planned and it will be done right.
Oliver Maynard and Nick Hyde in Double Act at Southwark Playhouse. Photography by Tanya Pabaru.
By Stuart King Saturday, March 22 2025, 11:58
In the midst of the Russian countryside, with fold-away chairs ranged around the edge of a lake and a dense cornfield acting as a backdrop to aid playful entrances and exits, Chekhov’s classic THE SEAGULL is performed as you’ve never before experienced it.
Cate Blanchett in The Seagull at Barbican. Image by Richard Lakos
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