The performances are quite simply breathtaking [...] Theatre seldom, if ever, comes greater than this ...By Far and Away the best work I have ever seen at the theatre.
Manville captures [Helene Alving's] mix of birdlike efficiency, self-denial and strength as she negotiates a plot that deals with the misery caused by disease, snobbish attitudes and masculine excess.
Using his own sharp, swift-footed adaptation, Richard Eyre's spell-binding production builds to its shattering climax in an unbroken 90-minute arc.
