Kerry Jackson
60%
60%
(10 Ratings)
Positive
40%
Mixed
30%
Negative
30%
Members say
Cliched, Entertaining, Disappointing, Predictable, Funny

About the Show

April De Angelis's new comedy about a working-class woman's journey in operating a new restaurant.

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Critic Reviews (9)

The London Evening Standard
December 8th, 2022

"You could tie yourself in knots forever over the complications and questions this play throws up, but it is ultimately a theatrical sitcom: engineered confrontations, sudden revelations, big laughs."
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Time Out London
December 12th, 2022

" ‘Kerry Jackson’ threatens to be an incisive drama about class stereotypes and gentrification; it settles for abject mediocrity instead."
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The Guardian (UK)
December 8th, 2022

"The best bits come when characters stop talking and start dancing, with a sweet sense of girls behaving badly as Kerry and Athena blast up the music, but that can’t save this play from sinking."
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The Times (UK)
December 12th, 2022

"The musical interludes are eccentric at best, but at least they give us a break from the wretched dialogue."
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London Theatre
December 8th, 2022

"The final scene posits a way forward for two antithetical personalities that is entirely preposterous. No matter: By that point, I’d clocked Kerry’s self-comparison to 'a bad fairy'."
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The Stage (UK)
December 8th, 2022

"It’s essentially a feeble, overstretched skit, so simplistic that it insults the communities it purports to portray, as well as the intelligence of its audience."
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The Arts Desk
December 12th, 2022

"If this is the best that flagship new writing can offer then I can only despair."
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The Telegraph (UK)
December 8th, 2022

"This a precariously crude and flimsy scaffold on which to hang a state-of-the-nation conversation, it’s impossible to take these people seriously when De Angelis presents them both as such blunt instruments of satire and such crass cultural ciphers."
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