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TIME OUT – 2 August 2006 FIVE STARS - Show of the Week - Critics Choice "The performances, plus Jonathan Harvey’s warm-hearted, understated script, equal a theatrical experience that is itself a beautiful thing: a tough, optimistic slice of love life that leaves you twinkling like the stars” "As Ste, Gavin Brocker delineates each faltering step from macho West Ham fan to a young man daring to be gay.”

DAILY TELGRAPH – 31 July 2006 "It has an infectious optimism that far transcends the confines of its drab housing-estate setting and the political agendas of its time” "Carli Norris is stroppy and devoted as Jamie’s mother, with Michelle Terry wonderfully strong and strident as the girl next door.”

SUNDAY TIMES – 30 July 2006 FOUR STARS "In conveying the enforced intimacy of this world, the director, Toby Frow, and the designer, Ben Stones, have performed a minor miracle – the ingenious staging in this tiny space takes the audience virtually inside the action”

SPECTATOR – 5 August 2006 "Newcomer Jonathan Bailey… is hugely convincing as the shy teenager, Jamie” "In the course of the play we see Sandra (excellently played by Carli Norris) evolve form a clichéd middle-aged sexpot into a credible human being” "A play that is exactly what it purports to be, a beautiful thing.”

FINANCIAL TIMES "Steven Meo is likewise magnificent as Sandra’s latest lover Tony.”

WHATSONSTAGE.COM – 26 July 2006 FIVE STARS "A memorable production of a classic gay love story – but you don’t have to be gay to leave with a big smile on your face.”