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By Stuart King Saturday, May 3 2025, 11:46
Following its huge commercial and critical success at the Royal Court, Mark Rosenblatt’s GIANT (Olivier Award for Best Play) this week began a West End transfer, settling at the 872 seater Harold Pinter until 2nd August.
Giant production image. Photo by Johan Persson
By Stuart King Friday, May 2 2025, 13:21
In a joint production with Culture Ireland, the Barbican are hosting Stephen Rea in Samuel Beckett’s KRAPP'S LAST TAPE. But is the experience worth a visit to London’s notoriously labyrinthine brutalist premises?
Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape at the Barbican.
By Stuart King Thursday, May 1 2025, 09:49
American writer Lila Raicek utilises Ibsen’s old-man-besotted warhorse as the scaffold for this modernist marital recrimination play, but the end result — MY MASTER BUILDER — is very much a beast of its own, albeit that some of the dialogue wouldn’t appear out of place at an airport paperback concession.
Elizabeth Debicki (Mathilde), Ewan McGregor (Henry Solness) in My Master Builder at Wyndham's Theatre. photograph by Johan Persson.
By Stuart King Wednesday, April 30 2025, 21:07
What starts as a bizarrely incongruous combination of two black actors delivering a hobo pastiche in which one repeatedly begs for quarters, (think Waiting For Godot or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead overlayered with dust bowl/plantation motifs), morphs into a global rap tour as Tambo and Bones pursue the money and success central to the American Dream.
Clifford Samuel and Daniel Ward in Tambo & Bones (c) Jane Hobson
By Stuart King Friday, April 25 2025, 09:49
In the programme notes for THE BRIGHTENING AIR, playwright director Conor McPherson compares theatre to a pagan church. “…like a religious service, theatre is a distillation of the baffling privilege of being alive.”
Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel Harlan
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