'Oscar Wilde's Victorian comedy of manners can still seem thrillingly contemporary - the sharp repartee and delicious skeweing of hypocrisy and pomposity can still make you laugh out loud.'

Siobhan Murphy, Metro (London), 10.7.09

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is the most perfect high comedy in the English language.'

Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 10.7.09

'a revelation of inter-personal social engineering that keeps things firmly in the family in a gloriously superficial piece of serious fun.'

Neil Cooper, Herald, 25.10.10

'A treasure trove of delicious aphorisms and quotable epigrams'

Robert Dawson Scott, The Times, 27.10.10

'Wilde's 1895 masterpiece is a magnificent piece of theatre'

Joyce McMillan, Scotsman, 29.10.10

'a biting satire wrapped in a romantic comedy'

Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 31.10.10