“a warm, life-affirming show … this production serves up a cracking array of one-liners interspersed with catchy tunes … a hilarious, and often poignant, snapshot into ordinary life” ★★★★★ – Mag North,‘A Street Like This’
“The writing is understated, measured and beautiful” ★★★★ – Joyce McMillan: The Scotsman, ‘Until It’s Gone’
“CRACKLES WITH BRILLIANT COMEDY AND PULLS YOU UP SHARP WITH ITS PUNCHY DRAMATIC REVELATIONS.” ★★★★★ – THE REVIEWS HUB, ‘THE LAST QUIZ NIGHT ON EARTH’
“… PACKED FULL OF COMEDIC SET PIECES, GREAT ONE LINERS AND A PINCH OF HIGH DRAMA.” ★★★★ – OPENING NIGHT, ‘THE LAST QUIZ NIGHT ON EARTH’
“WHIMSICAL, ABSURDIST … QUICK, TIGHT, AND FRANKLY BIZARRE … UNQUESTIONABLY AND UNPRETENTIOUSLY AMUSES AND ENTERTAINS.” ★★★★ – BROADWAY WORLD, ‘STUFF’
“A TRULY SPLENDID SHOW … DONE CLEVERLY AND WITH A CONFIDENCE THAT IS A TESTAMENT TO [THE] WRITER’S CLEAR TALENT AND BRAVERY.” – A YOUNGER THEATRE, ‘CATERPILLAR’
“SEARINGLY MODERN AND STRIKINGLY TIMELESS, A NECESSARY DRAMA FOR NOW.” ★★★★ – THE SPY IN THE STALLS, ‘CATERPILLAR’
“FIERCE BUT OFTEN COMIC … BRUISING YET TOUCHING” – THE STAGE, ‘IRIS’
“COMPLEX AND INGENIOUSLY PLOTTED” – BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE, ‘IRIS‘
“A SPARKLING SOLO SHOW … AN UTTER DELIGHT” ★★★★ – THE LIST, ‘THE SOAKING OF VERA SHRIMP’
“… THE SCRIPT IS FREQUENTLY HILARIOUS, PUNCTUATED BY MOMENTS OF SINCERITY AND PATHOS.” ★★★★ – THREE WEEKS, ‘THE SOAKING OF VERA SHRIMP’
“CARR SUSTAINS THE BOLD PREMISE THROUGH THE VIVIDNESS OF HER WRITING … A PLAY THAT WEARS ITS DELIGHT IN THE ABSURD LIKE A BADGE OF HONOUR” ★★★★ – THE TIMES, ‘FAT ALICE’
“THE SPARKLE AND SWING OF THE WRITING IS IRRESISTIBLE” – THE SCOTSMAN, ‘FAT ALICE’
“GENUINELY FUNNY AND SUPERBLY SILLY THIS IS A TRULY ORIGINAL PIECE” ★★★★ –THE LIST, ‘PATRICIA QUINN SAVED MY LIFE’
BUT OTHERWISE WENT WELL
CATERPILLAR
MAM, DAD, MONKEY AND ME
PATRICIA QUINN SAVED MY LIFE