The Guardian
08.08.00
"* * * * This is a tragical tale and you'll weep, but only with laughter…
On the evidence of this endearing, inventive show [the company] should
have a very long life" read
this review in full
The Times
30.01.01
"The smartly silly inventions of a superbly skilful cast levitated
me into a state of snickering convulsing and literally teary-eyed happiness...
I nearly died laughing" read
this review in full
Globe & Mail, Canada 21.01.02
"Deliriously funny - credit this young European troupe with impeccable taste in influences and a skill to match the originals "
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Houston Chronicle, USA 13.04.01
"Inspired, inventive, irresistible - the most fun anyone has found in the undertaking business since Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One." read this review in full
The List
15.08.00
"* * * * * Dead cert killer hit… This show is a real beaut:
perfect punning, gruesome slapstick, the epitome of knockabout farce.
The company break moulds with as much fresh originality as Not The Nine
O Clock News and Fawlty Towers did in their day"
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Total
Theatre Autumn 2000
TOTAL THEATRE AWARD WINNER 2000
"Polished and perfected so that it sparkles like a freshly-cut gemstone.
Side-splittingly hilarious." read
this review in full
La Reforma,
Mexico
(Spanish) 11.09.01
"Impeccable black comedy" read
this review in full
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The Herald
26.08.01
"Seriously, outrageously, cleverly funny - an ensemble tour de force"read
this review in full
Tagesanzeiger, Switzerland (German) 09.02.99
"Tears of laughter... Hilarious choreography... A jewel of black
English humour, mining a rich seam of the absurd" read
this review in full
The Independent
08.08.00
"Hilarious, gleeful black humour" read
this review in full
Edinburgh
Evening News 17.08.00
"* * * * * Stunningly original gem" read
this review in full
Syria Times
22.12.01
"The spectator can assimilate the essence of human tragedy in spite
of the amount of hysterical laughter." read
this review in full
Al Safir, Syria
19.11.01
"The body is a clown on stage and illusion brings us back to life."
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translation in full
Taipei Times.
Taiwan 05.04.02
"Opening the 2002 Taipei Internanal Arts Festival is the rollicking
'Stiff'" read
this review in full
Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland (German) 29.01.99
Zurichsee Zeitung, Switzerland (German) 06.03.99
The Stage & Television Today 04.02.99
Zurichsee Zeitung, Switzerland 08.04.00
Neue Luzerne Zeitung, Switzerland (German) 24.11.00
The Stage & Television Today 01.02.01
Nepszabadzag Hungary (Hungarian) 03.02.01
Budapest Sun, Hungary 01.02.01
Hemel Hempstead Gazette 25.04.01
