Reviews

Pete & Me 2009 - Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne ...excellent performance(s) from Helen Bolitho as Cook's long suffering but unruffled girl friend Judy Huxtable. Tony Flood - Eastbourne Herald May 2009 Showcase 2006 - Birmingham School Of Acting, Soho Theatre, London …Another believable character was fashioned by Helen Bolitho as Theresa in Bombshells (by Joanna Murray-Smith) Bolitho looking very credible as a would-be wild-child - this story of things in her life not quite working as planned was actually quite involving. Derek Smith - The Stage, 29 June 2006 Stoll by Theatre de Klunka - Edinburgh Fringe 2004 Devised by three exceptional young performers, Helen Bolitho, Anna Sanczuk and Hannah Richards who switch from tragic to lazzi performances in an instant… It is unpretentious, immediate and incredibly gripping. A true contender for a Fringe First - I just hope someone will have the sense to give it to them. ***** (c)Ksenija Horvat - EdinburghGuide.com, 16 August 2004 After several minutes of this intense work… with elements of dance drama, I concluded I was watching the enactment of some dark Nordic myth. To the sound of heavy, relentless rain, two female figures engage in anguished, twisted movements watched by the brooding presence of a sinister figure draped in black and festooned with fairy lights…a Bergmanesque landscape of utter desolation. … echoes of Kantor faintly sounded. Then, as brooding deity metamorphoses into an ill-kempt, facially disfigured young woman plaintively playing the violin, which the others then snatch, clawing at her, I glimpse a parable of the Balkan wars, as joy becomes submerged by brutal irrationality. Helen Bolitho, Anna Sanczuk and Hannah Richards of Theatre de Klunka have created a thought-provoking abstract work. Brian G Cooper – The Stage, August 2004 The three strong cast of Theatre de Klunka are very ambitious in devising a strong visual style of theatre. They take admirable risks in presenting material that is dark and mysterious – there is some striking imagery; mesmerising moments of theatrical metaphor. This is daring stuff, raw and surreal… I applaud a style of theatre that refuses resolutely to give me the traditional cohesive arrative; that seeks to empower my imagination by forcing me into collaboration with the performers in the search for meaning. Jackie Fletcher – British Theatre Guide, August 2004