“This year’s crop of BOVTS students are undoubtedly a talented bunch and within the obvious constraints of casting a play with diverse ages amongst a group with reasonably homogenous ages turn in a very entertaining performance of this once banned Soviet era play. . . This adaption by Deborah McAndrew of Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 play, The Suicide, gives the original Russian a non-specific, but metropolitan UK setting with characters drawn from all over the kingdom . . . This is a highly enjoyable production that will be a good stepping stone for all concerned.”

” . . . Anyone old enough to remember ‘Family Favourites’ on the BBC Light Programme will be familiar with most of the songs. The reason is simple: it is stuffed full of memorable tunes that were regularly requested by and for our lads overseas. As ‘feel good’ numbers go it doesn’t get much better than, ‘Oh What A Beautiful Mornin’, which opens the show . . . As a revival of the, ‘here’s one I made earlier and it’s perfect’ kind, this is a ‘whee ha!’ of a production that will have you coming up for air as the nostalgia washes over you.”