'Judi Dench's sprightly Mistress Quickly is a comic marvel...Paul Chahidi is wonderful as the manic French Dr Caius meeting his match in Ian Hughes as the equally manic 'Welsh Fairy' parson Sir Hugh Evans...Paul Englishby's score is gentle, wistful, romantic and elegant and it suits a brilliantly confident production by Greg Doran...I can't wait for the CD of what is a superb Christmas present to us all from the RSC'
Daily Express
'Simon Callow [Falstaff] splendidly combines an air of fleshy decadence with super posh vowels, relishing the fat knight's speeches like a great gourmand of the English language'
Independent on Sunday
'The casting is deluxe: Haydn Gwynne and Alexandra Gilbreath are delectably merry...Alistair McGowan is a Ford of Basil Fawlty fatuity and rages...Simon Trinder gives [a] star performance as a fey young yellow-bearded Slender: feckless, forlorn, artless, heartcatching, riveting in every movement, every utterance'
Financial Times
'Excellent...terrific creative flair...some really top drawer comic choreography from Michael Ashcroft'
Sunday Times
