Susan Elkin

“It’s all very convincing – as moving as it is funny because it’s a pretty uncomfortable, lengthy, hazardous journey with long waits at every check point.”

“Yes, there’s poignancy here – and tragedy – but it never never sinks to sentimentality and it’s leavened with hope and love.”

“In Daniel Bailey’s hands, it’s visceral, intense and arresting.”

“It’s searingly gruelling stuff although its unbroken 90 minute length passes quite quickly.”

“This pleasingly grown-up play depends on words, suggestion and action rather than gimmickry.”

“I think this has the potential to catch on in the way that Six or Les Miserables have, I hope so because it's fine music and, my goodness, people need to think about these issues now before it's too late.”

“Perhaps the clumsiness in the script was unavoidable.”

“It's quite a treat to see theatre as accomplished as this.”

“Brontë wrote Jane Eyre as a first person narrative and this production attempts to retain that but gets it jarringly wrong.”