149 stories by "Jessica Handscomb"
Review: Circus Days and Nights, Malmö Opera3.0Overall ScoreRobert Lax's 1959 book The Circus of the Sun recounts a day in the life of a travelling circus. Philip Glass has drawn inspiration…
Review: Late Night Staring at High Res Pixels, The Finborough Theatre3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards ke…
Review: Hymn, Almeida Theatre4.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping AYT going and paying our very tale…
Review: The Vagina Duologues, Living Record Festival2.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping paying AYT …
Review: The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre 4.0Overall Score I think it's fair to say that 2020 has been mostly horrendous, especially for theatre. But finally, a glimmer of hope can be seen …
Review: Mr Stink, Chickenshed Theatre3.0Overall ScoreDavid Walliams is not my favourite children's author; I'd just like to put that out there. They might be linked by the illustrations of t…
Review: Little Wars, Union Theatre4.0Overall ScoreAs the world of art is restricted by lockdown 2.0, we're forced to return to the old, new ways we had devised to keep theatre going while we…
Review: Elephant's Graveyard, The Production Exchange3.0Overall ScoreYou know what we all need right now? In such a bleak, sad time such as this? An utterly depressing true story about human…
Review: Watching Rosie, Original Theatre 4.0stars In June 2018, I reviewed Louise Coulthards' Cockamamy at The Hope Theatre. It was the good old days, pre-virus, in which we could sit should…
Review: Charlie Ward at Home, Sound&Fury3.0starsCharlie Ward (presumably a pun on Charley's War, the famous 1979 comic strip centred on an underage soldier) was first staged in 2014, to …
Review: Declan, The Actor's Centre2.0StarsGhost stories, amongst the streamable theatrical content on offer to us in lieu of a proper theatre trip, seem to be more popular than usual at the …
Review: The Tell-Tale Heart, Threedumb Theatre3.0starsWho would've thought we'd live through something scarier than a classic Gothic story? Edgar Allen Poe and his short but terrifying tales…
Review: La Cage aux Folles [The Play], Park Theatre4.0starsIn our politically turbulent times, in which the country was more or less split down the middle in the 2016 EU referendum, and arou…
Review: I Woke Up Feeling Electric, The Hope Theatre 3.0stars "If you don't rock the boat, you won't drown" is the line that perfectly encapsulates artificially intelligent operating system …
Uncle Vanya, Harold Pinter Theatre4.0starsChekov; one of the giants of early modernism and perhaps one of the most famous Russian playwrights. The highly anticipated adaptation by Olivier Aw…
Review: Cinderella, Trafalgar Studios3.0starsCinderella: the classic tale of a poor girl visited by a fairy godmother, her rags turned to riches and her pumpkin turned into a carriage. She m…
Review: A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic 5.0stars For the third year running, Jack Thorne's magical adaptation of the world's favourite Christmas story is on at the Old Vic, again spreading fe…
Review: Escape From Planet Trash, Pleasance Theatre5.0starsEscape From Planet Trash is like the long lost millennial child of the Rocky Horror Show and Samuel Beckett's Endgame and if that d…
Review: La Clique, Leicester Square Spiegeltent3.0starsThe theme of the night, I'm guessing, must be domesticity. I've come to this conclusion after a man juggles champagne flutes and lemons…
Review: Stray Dogs, Park Theatre2.0starsIt's 1940 in Russia, in the midst of Stalin's rule. Anna Akhmatova, one of Russia's greatest modern poets, has lost her husband, and is at risk of los…
Review: Translations, National Theatre 5.0stars It feels a little bit silly to be writing a review of Translations after it's sold-out run last year. Tickets sold like hot cakes, and now, du…
Review: Fast, Park Theatre2.0starsSet over a Century ago, Fast tells the tale of Linda Hazzard, a quack Doctor who operated in both Washington State and then New Zealand. She obtained her me…
Review: 'Master Harold' … and the boys, Lyttleton Theatre 5.0starsApartheid. A word that conjures up images of racism and injustice. South Africa, up until 1994, was segregated. Now, in…
Review: Faith, Hope and Charity, National Theatre 5.0stars Faith, Hope and Charity is the most important play of the year, perhaps the most important of our age. The story centres on Hazel (…
Review: Don Giovani, Royal Opera House2.0starsMozart's Don Giovanni first premiered in Prague in 1787. With libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, it tells the story of the walking STI that is Don Gi…
