“It’s hack-work, pure and simple”: Stewart Pringle on Julian Fellowes’ insipid musical version of Kenneth Grahame’s classic.
Stewart Pringle
Articles by Stewart Pringle
9 June 2016
Features
Getting in the Spirit: Clairvoyance and Entertainment
By Stewart Pringle
In response to True Spirit, a touring showcase of British mediums, at Epsom Playhouse, Stewart Pringle foresees a time when clairvoyance will be taken seriously as show-business.
23 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: The Encounter at The Barbican
Barbican Theatre ⋄ 12th Feb - 6th Mar 2016
By Stewart Pringle
“The Encounter is an absolutely spectacular and absolutely state-of-the-art framework for one of the oldest colonial narratives – the white man’s journey into the unknown.”
23 December 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
The Dazzle
Found111 ⋄ 10t December 2015 - 30th January 2016
By Stewart Pringle
Andrew Scott and David Dawson, fierce and glimmering.
2 December 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Linda
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 25th November 2015 - 9th January 2016
By Stewart Pringle
The protagonist of her own life.
18 November 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Derren Brown: Miracle
Palace Theatre ⋄ 17th December 2015 - 16th January 2016
By Stewart Pringle
Magic with a message.
4 November 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
The Hairy Ape
Old Vic ⋄ 17th October – 21st November 2015
By Stewart Pringle
Tragic and electrifying.
21 October 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Plaques and Tangles
Royal Court, Jerwood Upstairs ⋄ 20th October - 21st November 2015
By Stewart Pringle
Forgettable.
20 October 2015
Features • Performance
Fierce Festival 2015: Hyperlocal and Supernow
By Stewart Pringle
New work by Season Butler, Kate McIntosh, & Selina Thompson at Birmingham’s international festival of live art.
13 October 2015
Features • Books
Book Review: Action Plans
By Stewart Pringle
Stewart Pringle reviews the new collection of ‘Performance Texts’ by Action Hero, published by Oberon Books.
9 October 2015
Reviews • Coventry
Weaklings
Warwick Arts Centre ⋄ 7th-8th October 2015
By Stewart Pringle
A beautiful, chewy love-letter.
6 October 2015
Features
A Return to Jabberwocky Market
By Stewart Pringle
Stewart Pringle reports back from a weekend in Darlington for a mythical mirror beast of a festival.
20 September 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Hangmen
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 10th September - 10th October 2015
By Stewart Pringle
Gallows humour.
13 September 2015
Features
Feeding The Beast
By Stewart Pringle
Hard to say, but Tom Wicker and Stewart Pringle might be a little bit excited about an announcement from surreal comedy mongers Kill The Beast.
10 September 2015
Features
Sarah Chew: “It’s a question of the spoken and the unspoken”
By Stewart Pringle
Stewart Pringle speaks to Sarah Chew about Lilac Wine, her drag fairytale of modern Iran.