The stakes are high when a fragile ceasefire causes two countries to enter into peace talks. The strip of land they have been fighting over, could be any of a number of world conflict zones, but right now with Ukraine never far from anyone's mind, the scenario seems particularly prescient.
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Review: WINNER’S CURSE at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 14 2023, 19:06


Review: PHAEDRA at National Theatre, Lyttelton
By Stuart King Friday, February 10 2023, 12:35
Scholars would accept that the Greeks knew a thing or two about mankind’s foibles, failings and fallibilities. Undoubtedly determined to ensure that the theatrical fashion for exploring human vice and perversion would never die-out, their dramatists oft returned to (and rehashed) yarns of gore, exploring incest, infanticide, lust, regicide and an assortment of other unpalatable proclivities, to excess.
Cast of Phaedra at the National Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson


Review: HOW NOT TO DROWN at Theatre Royal Stratford East
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 1 2023, 10:35
With just five performers — including Dritan Kastrati, on whose real life experiences HOW NOT TO DROWN is based — Stratford East continues its association with hard-hitting drama which gives voice to the under-represented, victimised and dispossessed.
Sam Reuben and the Company of How Not To Drown. Credit Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.


Review: THE ELEPHANT SONG at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, January 24 2023, 09:23
Psychiatric wards have provided a rich source of material for writers and dramatists over the decades, but in a world where our mental health and well-being are discussed and evaluated more openly than at any time in human history, does Nicholas Billon’s psychological drama THE ELEPHANT SONG have anything interesting to say to a modern audience?


Review: THE UNFRIEND at Criterion Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, January 19 2023, 23:00
Holiday friendships (especially those made on a cruise ship) aren’t meant to go beyond the holiday, right? Everybody knows that. It’s one of those dependable unwritten rules! Unless that is, you are Elsa Jean Krakowski, a brash American widow and Trump-devotee from Denver, with something of a disturbing history, who has just emailed to advise she’s standing outside your front door.
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