5.0
Review: Evita, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
“Charismatic despots are back in fashion” claims Jamie Lloyd, director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s shiny new staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Ric...
Jessica Handscomb
5.0
2.0
Review: Refract, King’s Head Theatre
I think it’s fair to say that most of us, at some point in our lives, have uttered the words “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it”. We often reckon th...
3.0
Review: The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre
It’s September 1940, and Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon (Clive Owen) has just arrived at the Costa Verde Hotel. A disgraced priest who was fired for “promiscuity...
3.0
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican
What strikes me halfway through the first act of Timothy Sheader’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, is what a truly bizarre subject this is to base a rock...
3.0
Review: the end of history…, Royal Court
‘Most mothers threatened to send their kids’ food to the starving Africans, she actually did it.’ These are the words that Sal’s (Lesley Sharp) children joke t...
5.0
Review: Present Laughter, The Old Vic
Embarrassingly, I had never seen a production of a Noël Coward play before Present Laughter. I had of course read some of his work, and heard of his undeniable...
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.