VEIL: COMMENTS BOOK 2008 (Selection)

LBT Huddersfield

Fantastic! Visually beautiful, intense, moving and lovely music.

Oh my goodness, the piece is great. Never really seen a piece like this before. The techniques used are ace. Well thought out. Love it!!

Thank you for being so brave with this delicate strong production – worth coming from London.

Brilliant – powerful – thought provoking – tense – intense

The Point, Eastleigh

Had fantastic evening. Bravo!!! 10/10 all round.

Really enjoyed the use of masks and amazed how much emotion was expressed. Excellent evening, thank you very much

Unity, Liverpool

Fascinating from beginning to end. Remarkable masks – brilliant!

Absolutely loved it, full of brilliant ideas, a pleasure just to sit back and soak in the sights and sounds. Please get someone to back a mid-scale tour. Thanks.

MAC, Birmingham

A powerful performance. Well done. The masks are forgotten because the body language is so expressive.

I shall go home and replay it in my mind – for many days. Thanks you.

A wonderfully imaginative and exciting show. – Excellent atmosphere. Well done.

Plymouth

Completely beautiful! Stunning, hypnotic.

H+B’s best yet! Congratulations

He disfrutat molt de l’obra, on no han calqut paraules x expresar un sentiment, una frase, o fins I tota tota una obra desfasada d’emocions, gracies!

Cambridge

I’m 56 and my daughter is 30. Between us we came up with so many different interpretations of the story. The masks, film usage was original and amazing. Breathtakingly different and thought provoking.

Beautiful, magical and dreamlike. The different presentation methods blended seamlessly into an enchanting, moving story. Loved it.

Newbury

Clever, intelligent, skilled, talented. We are awestruck by you.

My second viewing – greatly impressed by the realism of the mime and astonished by the way 5 actors become a company of eight!

The Lowry, Salford

Astonishing play and wonderful atmosphere, music, acting. Horse + Bamboo are truly imaginative.

I was moved, excited, enchanted.

Fantastic – leaves the soul open

This is what real theatre is about! Absolutely fantastic. The theatre should be full of drama schools, to show the way.

The Boo, Rossendale

Brilliant – wish I’d come before. It’s amazing to have such quality performers on our doorstep. Thank you.

Burnley Mechanics

Atmospheric, wonderful music, totally absorbing, loved the whole thing from start to finish – another 2 hours would not have been enough. Please come again.

Fascinating – interpretation without words – I never knew could be so powerful. Captivated throughout.

Fantastic experience – I thought this was really engaging theatre leaving much for discussion. Thank you.

Excellent. Never experienced anything like that before. Completely blown away and impressed by the deep message.

Oldham Coliseum

Brilliant – this is the second time we’ve seen it.

Crucible Studio, Sheffield

What a fantastic experience. I have never seen anything like it – so artistic and original.

The applause didn’t reflect how we felt. Such a moving performance – so grateful to have seen it.

A fantastic performance. I’m sure we will all leave the place to reflect, such is the impact on us.

Well researched, an amazing reflection of the Arab way of life.

Wow! Engrossing and visually striking. Thank you. An amazing evening.

The Rose, Ormskirk

Very enjoyable, artistic, interested in the puzzle idea. Well put together – cleverly fitted.

Liked the Saddam/Bush reference and enjoyed the use of shadow puppetry. Very clear, technically amazing and very interesting.

Square Chapel, Halifax

After living in the middle east for the past 30 years I found your play brilliant and realistic, much needed in the western world. The puppetry was brilliant and the play’s orientation stunning.

I felt awe, and it left me with questions.

Absolutely amazing!!!

The Corn Exchange, Brighton

Absolutely brilliant. The applause multiplied by a million. Please carry on – what a way to bring the war/rape – to awareness. Thank you!

Unforgettable imagery – very powerful and beautiful – it will stay with me for ever – a most amazing production – thanks you and come again please.

The play is engraved on my soul.

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