“Terrific, towering intensity… does great justice to the play… A superlative production”
Guardian on Faith Healer (BBC R3)
“Kavanagh graces Sam Shepard’s classic with such style the production should become a classic”
Observer on True West
Four ★★★★ Stars
Financial Times on True West
“Wickedly good, nasty, pitch black, and very very funny…”
Radio Times on Funeral Games
“Hilarious”
Five ★★★★★Stars
Daily Mail on Funeral Games
Photo: Phil Daniels in Faith Healer by Brian Friel.
“…Richard E.Grant, marvelously droll against the magnificent hauteur of Francesca Annis... relish the vividness of the production by Peter Kavanagh, so sharp yet so simple.” Four ★★★★ Stars
The Spectator on In the Depths of Dead Love
“Dazzlingly good.”
The Stage on In the Depths of Dead Love
“Richard E. Grant gives a staggering performance.”
Radio Times on In the Depths of Dead Love
Photo (left to right): Peter Kavanagh, Howard Barker, Francesca Annis, and Richard E Grant rehearsing In the Depths of Dead Love.
“The best Shakespeare BBC has done for years, its virtues are easily stated — you can boil them down into one overriding virtue: lucidity.” Four ★★★★ Stars
Independent on Measure for Measure
“…starring its author Harold Pinter — Penelope Wilton makes the words quiver. Pinter makes them boil… A completely compelling mix of rage threat and humour”
Times on Landscape
Photo (left to right): Malcolm Douglas and Deirdre Morris in The Labyrinth.
“Storming performed... ingeniously realised with absolute authenticity…a bruisingly funny, sharply intelligent evening…”
Mark Lawson, The Tablet on Not Quite Jerusalem
“Mordantly funny... enthralling performances... sparkles with relevance” Four ★★★★ Stars
Simon Jenner, Fringe Review on Not Quite Jerusalem
Photo: Harold Pinter in Landscape
“This new production haunts, terrifies yet surprises you into sudden laughter. In short, marvelous.” Four ★★★★ Stars
Daily Telegraph on The Caretaker
“At the Royal Court Theatre, a first-rate revival of Arrabal’s absurdist classic, transferred from the Dublin Theatre Festival”
Times on The Labyrinth
Photo: Mary-Ellen O'Hara and Andrew Scott in I Was The Cigarette Girl.
“At the Kings Head, a blithely entertaining comedy... Peter Kavanagh deftly directs... craftily ironic performances.” Four ★★★★ Stars
The Stage on Love & The Art of War
“Kavanagh’s beautifully paced production… Betsabeh Emran’s captivating performance”
The Stage on Motel Texel
Four ★★★★ Stars
Financial Times on Motel Texel
“A dazzling version… a fine tribute to Sir Tom Stoppard” Four ★★★★ Stars
Daily Mail on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Photo: Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas LePrevost in HR.
“Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas Le Prevost superb.... Fractiously funny... Tetchy, mean-spirited and hugely enjoyable”
Daily Mail on HR
“Inspired… beautifully acted comedy”
Mail on Sunday on HR
“Razor sharp… a wickedly good adaptation… a sparkling production”
Daily Telegraph on HR
Photo: Gina McKee in The Mother.
“A first-rate production… a tiny masterpiece… crisply directed… softly compelling… superb”
Simon Jenner, Fringe Review on A Selfish Boy (Ink Festival/Tristan Bates Theatre)
“…outstanding performances by Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale and Ronald Pickup… A fine, clear, immediately accessible version in a production that exactly matched the text.” Four ★★★★ Stars
Sunday Telegraph on Ibsen’s Rosmersholm
Photo: James Graham during the production of his play, Albert’s Boy.
“James Graham’s peerless play, directed by Peter Kavanagh... the best this year... Victor Spinetti gives a sterling performance that deserves a prize”
The Oldie on Albert’s Boy
“Peter Kavanagh’s captivating revival… impeccable direction” Four ★★★★ Stars
Reviews Hub on Salt-Water Moon (Finborough Theatre)
Photo: Elisabeth Counsell and Kenneth Cranham in Rhoda and Pete Get Back On the Scene
“A stunning production… Peter Kavanagh’s direction elevates the urgency… Joseph Potter fantastic…. Bryony Miller similarly brilliant: she isn’t playing Mary, she is Mary”
★★★★ Four Stars
Independent on Salt-Water Moon (Finborough Theatre)
“Captivating performances with steady pacing throughout this intense thriller…”
Reviews Hub/Artiscape on Cyanide at 5 (Kings Head)
“Undercurrents simmer… a small gem… a gripping production at the Kings Head”
Spectator on Cyanide at 5
Photo (left to right): Christopher Hampton and Peter Kavanagh.