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16 Postcodes review – one-woman patchwork psychogeography of London

16 Postcodes review – one-woman patchwork psychogeography of London

King’s Head theatre, London Jessica Regan creates a collaborative collage of the capital and its romantic encounters, eccentric flatmates and eye-watering rents Jessica Regan’s promising one-woman show tells a story of city life in a different order each night. It is a collaborative collage of London, created with audience input as she travels through some of the 16 postcodes she has lived in. It is lovely storytelling, although the patchwork of its psychogeography never quite becomes a whole. Written and performed by Regan, who originally staged it at the Edinburgh fringe in 2024, she begins with arrival in London from Ireland, as a drama student at Rada. The 16 postcodes are displayed on cards in the backdrop and she tells stories about them in the order the audience chooses, moving between two chairs and a fold-away table in a show that melds improve spirit with dramatic monologue. Continue reading...