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The Little Prince at London Coliseum
13 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE at London Coliseum

As a banned writer and well-travelled man, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry created The Little Prince in 1943 (a year before his death) possibly as an anti-Fascist social commentary. The aviator-come-author-come-illustrator produced the story with segmented journey-telling coupled with his brand of thinly veiled, seditious moralising. So what would he make of this stage adaptation?

The Little Prince at London ColiseumThe Little Prince at London Coliseum.

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Julia McDermott in Weather Girl. Pamela Raith Photography
12 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: WEATHER GIRL at Soho Theatre

It’s clear that WEATHER GIRL’s writer Brian Watkins, feels warm and fuzzy when he contemplates Darwin’s theory of natural selection! Fires are raging in California and our intrepid weather girl Stacey (Julia McDermott) is on location, delivering sunshine smiles in front of a burning homestead. We later learn that the charred ruins were home to a family of climate change deniers who believed the fire department’s evacuation warnings were a government conspiracy. QED!

Julia McDermott in Weather Girl. Pamela Raith PhotographyJulia McDermott in Weather Girl. Pamela Raith Photography

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Nigel Harman (Otto Abetz) and Jemima Rooper (Suzanne Abetz) in Farewell Mister Haffmann. Photography Mark Senior.
11 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: FAREWELL MISTER HAFFMANN at Park Theatre

It’s a truth universally acknowledged among theatre critics, that if the seat from which you review a production on press night induces a pain in the neck (quite literally), it will likely have a demonstrable impact on your enjoyment of the production. Such was the unfortunate truth of my 41st review assignment at Park Theatre last evening, where I was scheduled to see FAREWELL MISTER HAFFMANN.

Nigel Harman (Otto Abetz) and Jemima Rooper (Suzanne Abetz) in Farewell Mister Haffmann. Photography Mark Senior.Nigel Harman (Otto Abetz) and Jemima Rooper (Suzanne Abetz) in Farewell Mister Haffmann. Photography Mark Senior.

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Dear Martin, Arcola Theatre.
09 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: DEAR MARTIN at Arcola

Author of DEAR MARTIN, playwright Madeleine Brettingham is better known for her television comedy scriptwriting and from this easily pigeonholed, ludicrously premised piece, it’s not difficult to see why she has a string of credits to her name.

Dear Martin, Arcola Theatre.Dear Martin, Arcola Theatre.

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The cast of White Rose. Photo Marc Brenner.
05 Mar
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Stuart King

Review: WHITE ROSE at Marylebone Theatre

WHITE ROSE THE MUSICAL plays at Marylebone Theatre until 13 April, that is, assuming the cast’s voices hold out and they aren’t hospitalised due to a surfeit of melancholy and over earnestness.

The cast of White Rose. Photo Marc Brenner.The cast of White Rose. Photo Marc Brenner.

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