"Directed, with considerable élan, by Josette Bushell-Mingo…the evening is dominated by a towering performance from Penny Downie as Penelope, who, now resident in the Underworld has bundles of Margaret Atwood’s gorgeous prose to draw on as she weaves her recollections."
Daily Telegraph
"A luminous performance from Penny Downie that captures the defiant intellect and accumulating guilt of Margaret Atwood’s heroine. Josette Bushell-Mingo's production has bags of inventive vitality...fills the stage with kaleidoscopic activity: stylised movement and air-puncturing cries from the 12-strong chorus who whirl to Warren Wills’ music."
Guardian
"Josette Bushell-Mingo directs a kaleidoscopic production that creates the logic of a dream on a glossy black stage with a shimmering square of cobalt-blue water. No question, however that it’s Penny Downie who is the wind in the show’s sails. As the narrator of her own story, she beings humour, pathos, intelligence, vulnerability, strength and disdain."
Mail on Sunday
"She tells her tale from Hades with suppressed rage, sensuality and wry humour. Flame-haired, her skin milk-white, her gown blood-red. Downie almost gives off sparks. When Downie narrates, her voice honey and thorns, it’s riveting. Downie glitters."
Times
