US soldiers stationed at Hawaii during the Second World War, pace the barracks growling like caged tigers due to the lack of anything to occupy them — aside from posturing, banter and press-ups in readiness for a boxing tournament. Soon will come Japan’s calculated surprise attack on Pearl Harbour, but before then, there’s a fair chunk of James Jones’ 1951 story to get through. The burning question, is will audiences be sufficiently engaged by the characters in this musical, to care what happens to them by the time the devastating aerial attack is delivered?
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10 Nov
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Review: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, November 10 2022, 08:57
04 Nov
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Review: THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD at ENO, London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, November 4 2022, 09:54
The Tower of London provides the backdrop for Gilbert & Sullivan’s playful romp-amidst-the-ravens where the waywardly amorous daughter of a righteous Beefeater has designs on one of the inmates (whom it seems, everyone believes innocent of the crime for which he has been incarcerated). By using her womanly wiles and appealing to her father’s good nature, Phoebe contrives to set-free the object of her desire and instead imprison him in matrimony. But is she doomed to failure?
A scene from Yeoman Of The Guard by Gilbert & Sullivan @ Coliseum. Directed by Jo Davies. Conductor, Chris Hopkins. ©Tristram Kenton
01 Nov
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Review: MARY at the Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, November 1 2022, 08:16
For a woman who was executed aged 44 more than four centuries ago, there remains an extraordinarily healthy fascination with Mary Queen of Scots, her life, loves, apparent political miss-steps and legacy. Much has been written over the centuries — overwhelmingly by men and through a male power prism — invariably gaslighting Mary’s vulnerability as misguided passion resulting in ill-considered alliances conceived through little more than lust.
Douglas Henshall (James Melville) Brian Vernel (Thompson) Rona Morison (Agnes) in Mary at Hampstead Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
28 Oct
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Review: TAMMY FAYE at Almeida
By Stuart King Friday, October 28 2022, 10:42
When news of its existence began circulating many moons ago, there seemed something delightfully subversive about the prospect of Elton John and Jake Shears combining their songwriting talents to create a musical based on the tumultuous life of one of the Christian Evangelical movement’s most unforgettable, beloved, pilloried, reviled and eventually rehabilitated television personalities, Tammy Faye Bakker.
24 Oct
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Review: A SINGLE MAN at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, October 24 2022, 10:22
Tom Ford electrified the movie world in 2009 with his gorgeously soft-focussed, cinematic adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel about a bereaved gay teacher, set in the early 1960s amidst Santa Monica’s swinging set.
Miles Molan, Phoebe Pryce, Theo Fraser Steele, Olivia Darnley, Freddie Gaminara - Photographer Mitzi de Margary.
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