“what might in another year [at Buxton International Festival] have been a sideshow is here an unostentatious highlight… All are at ease with the dialogue – a tribute to Laura Attridge’s direction of a production that achieves its effect through the simplest of means.”

— The Telegraph

“There’s...a sweetness to the storytelling that’s hard not to like. Somehow it only adds to the dreamlike quality that the musical numbers are in French, while the dialogue has a welcome directness in Attridge’s English update.”

— The Times

“an absolute joy…the best 75 minutes I’ve spent in ages.”

— The Guardian

“an inventive, pared-down staging by Laura Attridge that fitted this slight but lovely piece…well, like a silk slipper”

— The Spectator

“Laura Attridge (who produced such a delicious Così for English Touring Opera last year) demonstrated good taste and playful imagination in her staging.”

— Opera