Kerry Jackson

by April De Angelis

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy.Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry must navigate the local characters in a bid to make the business a success, without losing herself in the process.This biting comedy from April De Angelis premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2022.

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 22, 2022

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5, rounded down.

This got horrid reviews, and I can see why - characters rarely speak naturally, especially in the first scenes where some messy exposition is presented as just that. There are glimmers of humor, but it all gets so bogged down in ideological posing that it gets lost.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/202...
https://www.timeout.com/london/theatr...

[Illiterate · Rating 2 out of 5]

State of the nation sitcom on today’s ideologies of class, ie. populist right v privileged left. More cliches than humor.