18 stories by "Jessica Edwards"
What the Women Did opens charmingly, nostalgically, with the cast grouped around the piano singing classic great wartime songs together. It sets the tone admirably for the evening " communit…
Children of Fate opens with a sense of anticipation. A man huddled next to the remains of a fire in an oil drum, while a body stirs and whimpers under a pile of rags beside him. For an uncom…
Dotted Line Theatre’s The Engineer’s Thumb appears as part of the Firsts Festival, a season of puppetry premiers by emerging companies. It is produced by, and takes place at, …
Fiona Shaw performing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: arguably, two national treasures sharing the stage at the Old Vic Tunnels. Having seen Shaw's delicious performance of The Waste Land (…
Everyday Maps for Everyday Use contains moments of brilliance. As part of the Papatango New Writing Festival, inevitably the writing is offered up for scrutiny. Everyday Maps for Everyday Us…
Cul-De-Sac, the first play from stand-up comic Matthew Osborn is not the sort of show you'd usually expect to see at Theatre503. Plumbing the darker depths of suburbia, this is a snappy sati…
“I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy.” Howard Barker’s visceral and confrontational new play imagines the Bibl…
It's rare to see a completely astounding production. Even rarer, a completely astounding production of Chekhov. But Rimas Tuminas's production for Vakhtangov Theatre is exactly that – …
NSFW explodes onto the Royal Court stage with the force of a firework. Split between a lads’ mag (Doghouse) and a women's glossy (Electra), this is a play about gender in the cut-throa…
Entering Shelf Life through a giant vagina, you know at once that this show does not shy away from the ridiculous. Shelf Life is a new immersive promenade show from young company HalfCut …
I ♥ Peterborough doesn't let its audience off the hook. Staged with intimate directness on a claustrophobic, cramped corner of a living room, this play spills out of its space, confron…
A couple lie, partly naked, asleep, apart, on a rumpled bed in a hotel room. The matching upholstery has an air of faded grandeur. Watery sunlight leaks in through the drawn curtains. The in…
The Overcoat describes itself as “this modest but warm hearted story”, and in many ways this is an accurate description. This performance is nothing if not modest: economically t…
Brightest and Best begins as a caustic portrayal of the City rat race, and metamorphoses into a sophisticated musing on teaching. It follows the story of Rob (William Owen), who quits his hi…
Port Authority is a play about love, but not the play you expect. Many things about this nimble, eminently subtle piece are unexpected. In one of Conor McPherson's most sophisticated and hum…
Silver Shores opens in a week that could not be more pertinent to its subject matter. The week that saw footballer Luis Suarez suspended for racial abuse of a fellow player. The week in whic…
BLAST! is aptly named. It is like a firework, a rocket, exploding and illuminating for an instant, and then gone. For me, the success of this show is in the moment, rather than the whole. As…
With a blast of emotive classical music, five actors walk onto a polished stage full of clean lines and shining metal, a political party conference room. They are backed by a set of TV scree…
