‘Refreshing and classy… excellent theatre’
Rebecca Tyrrel, Sunday Telegraph
‘a remarkable play… Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint production is packed with exuberant energy and high-octane performances… the great joy is to find Feehily, while exposing the monotony of monogamy, also attacking the madness of a world that idolatrously worships fame, sex and celebrity.’
Michael Billington, The Guardian
“This is must-see modern morality… The Royal Court rang to laughter last week. O go my Man is a dazzling, if bumpy experience”
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
“Feehily’s play is savvy, smart and witty, and yet somewhere beneath the cynicism about love, sex and the whole damn thing there’s a wishfulness: if only men, women and children could stay together and be happy.
This piece is ambitious, refreshingly ambitious, maybe even over ambitious, as state of the nation plays often are. Atrocities in Darfur and elsewhere in Africa are persistently mentioned, putting these Irish people’s emotional chaos into perspective but, in one case, helping to explain it…
The piece is often very funny… it is also well acted, and not only by the principals. I much enjoyed Mossie Smith as a series of foreigners — airport waitress, hotel maid, Red Queen, vagrant or mangy moo — whose task is to look askance at these self-obsessed Irish people and their fluctuating love lives. “Good luck in Happy Town,” she barks at one point, “you pack of sh*ts.”
And in the context of a troubled world maybe that’s what they are
Benedict Nightingale, The Times
'Her use of slapstick beautifully suggests a culture which, newly unleashed from the confines of the old Catholicism, is now going rapidly out of control. Max Stafford-Clark's highly assured, well-acted production neatly exploits Feehily's strong comic eye and ability to balance pain and farce. The moment when Neil's 15-year-old daughter learns he is leaving for another woman is genuinely heartbreaking; the attempts of his estranged wife Zoe to record an Internet dating video a few scenes later are genuinely hilarious.'
Claire Allfree, Metro
‘brutally funny and perceptively painful… Feehily’s play has its own urgent and bracing take on the souring of relationships… acted to minutely-calibrated perfection by a superb cast… a haunting and resonant piece’
Mark Shenton, Whatsonstage
'an exemplary director and an excellent cast... Stella Feehily's ambitious play has all the hallmarks of modern life... The idea that we are irredeemably trivial is blazingly honest, and Feehily’s gift with a one-liner always spotlights the self-delusion that powers so many relationships.'
Victoria Segal, Sunday Times
?'Max Stafford-Clark's production romps along, pumped by lots of sex and some fabulous performances'
Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday
'Stella Feehily's brilliant play about passion and betrayal, love and despair... Max Stafford-Clark's fast-moving production is often wildly funny'
Bill Hagerty, The Sun
‘Max Stafford-Clark’s assured production, beautifully acted to stinging comic effect… sophisticated fun’
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
‘Stella Feehily’s highly amusing and attractive new play… Max Stafford-Clark’s production responds beautifully to Feehily’s buoyancy of spirit’
Paul Taylor, Independent
'this funny and painfully perceptive play is acted to the hilt in Max Stafford-Clark's bracingly fluid production?
Mark Shenton, Sunday Express
