“Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf… you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba.”

“Heartbreakingly beautiful, powerful and poignant”

The British Theatre Guide

“Puppets and modern-day poignancy combine in Patrick Barlow’s high-spirited adaptation of Dickens.”

The Guardian

“An invigorating production which forces us to see Ibsen's masterpiece with fresh eyes”

The Guardian

“I knew how deep your longing must be to have someone really to love you, to be with you, when I saw that dreadful prostitute come out of the spare room."

"That was not a prostitute. It was the wife of one of my dearest friends!”

“How long are we still ourselves?

And, how long do others around us still consider us ourselves?”

“A darkly glittering couple of hours that makes you see the extraordinary in the everyday and the turbulent intensity of childhood”

The Guardian

“I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light to a darkening world! Is that wrong?”

“I don’t much care for theatre but I do enjoy Vaudeville”

Anton Chekhov

“They seek him here, they seek him there,

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!”