“It has often been said of Harold Pinter that the silences are as important as the dialogue (as someone who has dried on a West End stage let me tell you silence is not all it is cracked up to be) so in Light the darkness plays an important role. This is a mimed show – but that doesn’t do justice to its complexity so I’m going to call it ‘Performance Art’ – in which the turning on and off of various sorts of torches and strip lights with timed perfection is key to the success of this highly original work. . . This darkly pessimistic view of the future becomes less fanciful as technology advances and this thrilling work is a timely reminder that we must all be on our guard.”

“The book is one of those more sniggered about than read. Not so much a manual of sex as the 70’s bearded recipe book, The Joy of Sex, but the reminiscences, laid out in letter form, of a young, parentless country girl who finds herself in sin city. Frances Hill (Fanny) is a girl who falls in love with sex as she falls in love for the first and only time. It is the story of a girl seduced by pleasure as much as by men . . . All in all this is a self-consciously bawdy romp performed by a top class cast in the perfect setting of the Bristol Old Vic.”