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Review: Songs For Nobodies, Ambassadors Theatre
Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. How could it be possible that one woman may play all of these iconic figures, and play ...
Jessica Handscomb
4.0
Review: Sweat, Donmar Warehouse
Written in 2015, Sweat is Lyndsey Nottage’s second
Pulitzer Prize winning play, preceded by Ruined,
written in 2009. The story is set in Reading, Pennsylvania,...
Review: Dandelion, King’s Head Theatre
“Children are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay. All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life.” I was, ignorantly, shoc...
Review: A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic
“Christmas time is a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of when men and women open their shut-up hearts freely, and t...
Review: The Crumple Zone, The Kings Head Theatre
The crumple zone, for those who may not know, is the part of a car designed to take the full force of the impact if and when a collision occurs. It’s also the t...
Review: Redefining Juliet, The Pit at the Barbican
Juliet Capulet of Shakespeare’s world-renowned Romeo & Juliet might be one of, if not the most famous female character ever written for the stage. Countless...
Jessica Handscomb
Sub Editor
Born and raised in North London, Jessica studied for a BA in English at Goldsmiths. When she’s not at the theatre, she’s either talking to her plants or wasting her finite hours on earth re-reading the same few Wendy Cope poems.