Review: Half A Sixpence, Noël Coward Theatre
Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop, what a show! After a run that received rave reviews at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the foot-stomping Half a Sixpence has ‘blo...
Jessica Handscomb
Review: La Soirée, Spiegeltent at Leicester Square
In the Spiegeltent at Leicester Square lies a small circular stage surrounded by an audience of buzzing spectators. We're told to ‘leave our troubles at the doo...
Review: It is Easy to be Dead, Trafalgar Studios
Charles Hamilton Sorley died in the Battle of Loos in 1915 during the First World War. He was just 20 years old. Now, over a hundred years after his death, Neil...
Review: The Worst Was This, The Hope Theatre
The Worst Was This tells the story of three sisters running a tavern in an imagined post-apocalyptic universe in which Will Shakespeare (Ben Clifford) is a stru...
Review: Still Ill, New Diorama Theatre
Imagine for a moment, that you are ill. You experience muscle weakness, seizures, paralysis, blackouts and other symptoms. You know you are ill, but you’re cont...
Review: Merryville, Camden People’s Theatre
Waiting in the lobby to see Merryville we are offered the option of ear plugs, in case the music is too loud. I take a pair, just in case, and ten minutes in am...
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.