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Caroline Gruber in As Long As We Are Breathing at the Arcola Theatre. Copyright Lidia Crisafulli

31 Jan

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Review: AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING at the Arcola

By Stuart King Friday, January 31 2025, 10:47

A cloying pungency of lavender oil permeates the Arcola’s subterranean stairway (and your nostrils), long before you reach the playing area. As you enter, a man (Matthew James Hinchliffe) plays a calmly resonant percussion instrument, as though we are about to enjoy a collective massage. Our meditation on the Jewish condition begins with the reflections of an elderly woman Miriam (Caroline Gruber) who we learn survived her harrowing adolescence in Bratislava.

Caroline Gruber in As Long As We Are Breathing at the Arcola Theatre. Copyright Lidia Crisafulli

Alex Price, Nicholas Burns and Laura Haddock in The Gift at Park Theatre. Credit Rich Southgate

29 Jan

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Review: THE GIFT at Park Theatre

By Stuart King Wednesday, January 29 2025, 10:26

Park Theatre presents the world premier of Dave Florez’ comedy drama THE GIFT, in which obsessive Colin is destined to fixate and generally unravel as a consequence of receiving a mysterious box through the mail… Or at least that is what his concerned sister Lisa and her partner Brian are convinced will happen, and they speak from considerable experience of Colin’s neurotic foibles.

Alex Price, Nicholas Burns and Laura Haddock in The Gift at Park Theatre. Credit Rich Southgate

26 Jan

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Review: THE BOWIE SHOW at Hippodrome Golders Green

By Stuart King Sunday, January 26 2025, 21:48

In January 2016, we lost an icon, a creative visionary, a trailblazer. For many (myself included) David Bowie was an extraordinary human being, if not a Demi-God. In the years which have passed since the release of Blackstar prior to his death, it has been easy to conclude that the world has become somehow tarnished, diminished by his sad demise aged 69 and the sequence of tumultuous global events which have occupied the timeline since.

The Bowie Show

Rosie Sheehy and Jamie Ballard in An Interrogation at Hampstead Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner

24 Jan

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Review: AN INTERROGATION at Hampstead Theatre

By Stuart King Friday, January 24 2025, 08:05

A young woman has been found strangled in her own home. When a second young woman goes missing in the vicinity, time is of the essence. John Culin (Colm Gormley) the ranking officer on the investigation, puts his star interviewer into the frame. But as the clock ticks, will his baited hook catch the killer, or are they wasting time on the wrong suspect?

Rosie Sheehy and Jamie Ballard in An Interrogation at Hampstead Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner

Demi Iowu in Under the Table at Barons Court Theatre. Photography by Kinga Anna Dulka.

22 Jan

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Review: UNDER THE TABLE at Barons Court Theatre

By Stuart King Wednesday, January 22 2025, 00:50

Travelling from East to West London (and back again) on a cold, dark, winters evening, to view a small scale fringe production at an altogether unassuming little venue beneath a pub, is not exactly a labour of love, but it comes with the territory for a theatre reviewer. Tuesday was such an evening.

Demi Iowu in Under the Table at Barons Court Theatre. Photography by Kinga Anna Dulka.

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Review: AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING at the Arcola

Review: THE GIFT at Park Theatre

Review: THE BOWIE SHOW at Hippodrome Golders Green

Review: AN INTERROGATION at Hampstead Theatre

Review: UNDER THE TABLE at Barons Court Theatre

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