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By Stuart King Sunday, June 9 2024, 20:31
Having previously wowed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, followed by a stint at Dundee Rep Theatre, NO LOVE SONGS now embarks upon a fortnight of performances in the main space at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, until 15th June.
No Love Songs (2024) Photo by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan. John McLarnon and Anna Russell-Martin.
By Stuart King Thursday, May 30 2024, 09:05
This week’s opening at the National Theatre’s Olivier is another regional transfer, having originated at Liverpool’s Royal Court where Kevin Fearon and the team, successfully produced and commissioned the piece based on the 1982 Thatcher-era television series penned by local boy Alan Bleasdale. In it, five working class Liverpudlian men and their families, struggle with the impact of unemployment and the lack of social care in the once thriving city.
Cast of Boys from the Blackstuff at the National Theatre. © Alastair Muir
By Stuart King Saturday, May 25 2024, 12:49
It would be the purest understatement to suggest that theatregoers have been wildly anticipating director Katie Mitchell’s latest live cinema production — the art form which hybridises a live stage performance piece (often relayed through stage mics on stands) which moves at a preordained rhythm and uses back screening and props used by performers who are usually ranged in a straight row facing the audience. When it comes-off and flows seamlessly, it can be simply breathtaking. So how does BLUETS compare with other examples of the genre, for example the extraordinary LITTLE SCRATCH also directed by Mitchell?
Kayla Meikle in Bluets at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. Photo Camilla Greenwell.
By Stuart King Thursday, May 23 2024, 09:00
With four on stage musicians and a further seven performers, Broadway’s winner of the Tony for Best Book of a Musical in 2008 has finally made the leap across the pond, settling into the Young Vic’s space for the summer. In so doing, it demonstrates why it proved such a surprise hit in New York, running for six months during its initial outing despite (or perhaps in spite of) its less than conventional format.
The cast of Passing Strange at The Young Vic Theatre.
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 21 2024, 10:16
A patrol officer Vet who lives on the Mexico-Texas border with his much younger second wife Grace, is to be awarded a medal for his service. The presentation ceremony offers the couple an opportunity to patch things up with the patrolman’s estranged son Buddy by inviting him to attend. But will he come, and if he does, will everything go to plan, and just whose plan is it anyway? Directed by Femi Elufowoju jr, this simmering 2010 drama by Suzan-Lori Parks receives its UK premier at Arcola Theatre.
The Book of Grace at the Arcola Theatre. Photo Alex Brenner.
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