Stark, dream-like play

WhatsOnStage

The apparent slickness of the play carries a strong poetic resonance, too, and stands alongside the very best of Stephens' output to date

WhatsOnStage

Stephens narrates the story with a light touch

The Stage

the themes of the play come at you with their flies undone

The Arts Desk

Stephens has written a Continental play for an English stage

The Arts Desk

The mercurial playwright is back in avant-garde mode after hitting West End gold with 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' . . . 'Birdland isn't really about rock stars or even rich people - like much of Stephens' work, it's a tragedy about a man incapable of empathising with other people . . . a portrait of one man's Icarus-like mental plummet, so far and so fast and so flashy as to be as exhilarating as it is sad.

Time Out London