Tim Walker

“This is unquestionably the Old Vic at its very best.”

“All in all, it's a great-looking, brilliantly performed piece that is a lot more than a poor man's Noises Off.”

“As awful as the seats may be, this is without question an assured and stylish production.”

“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has stonking great hit written all over it.”

“Sinead Cusack and a bewigged Peter Egan happen to be very good at essaying the kind of poised, perma-tanned, dead-eyed couple that anyone who has ever visited a golf club in California will know only too well.”

“In the event, I faced the music - and the show - and it is, as I had feared, the biggest Christmas turkey in town.”

“Soon, however, it becomes clear that one-liners are all that the play has to offer.”

“Craig Warner's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel makes for a clumsy and clunky ride.”

“Sir Tim's work is first out of the stocks, and let me say straight away that I like it.”

“I wonder if it hasn't now gone off the boil a bit. What might have been considered to be hot and steamy then will, I fancy, seem distinctly weak and tepid to modern theatre-goers.”

“Marianne Elliott's exhilarating production is less intimate than it was when performed in the round.”

“There have been quite a few Cabarets over the years – in addition, of course, to the film – but this is the most compelling I have ever seen.”

“I wish they really had all just let it be.”

“Matilda the Musical...falls into the same category [as Les Misérables, which is 'really rather good'].”