“It’s an intense piece of work but there is humour (especially in the evening class student archetypes). It ends abruptly but at just under two hours long and performed without an interval and spanning decades, it is compelling throughout in its telling of the story of an ‘ordinary’ woman whose life and achievements have been anything but.”
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“The Confessions is an anti-history showing how Alice... is unable to control her destiny, a fate that befell many smart but ordinary women like her...the performance of the evening comes from Brown, an unsung actress I have long admired, and whose watchful, quiet performance contains multitudes. A little life? I’d say it’s anything but.”
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" 'The Confessions' is a thought-provoking new play which holds a mirror up to the face of life itself and to what it means to actually succeed in it. "
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“The entire endeavour serves as a reminder of just how extraordinary an ordinary life can be but also of the magical story-telling nature of theatre itself, the way it can take one person’s experience and forge it into a tale for the ages, a collective fable of self-realisation and hope.”
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“...maybe this is a truly biographical nugget in a play that blends life and art into something captivating.”
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“Zeldin, who directs, invites us to ponder the artificiality of theatre and the unreliability of memory.”
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“It is hard to pin this profoundly moving play down to its depths. It is a piece of alchemy and an expression of love.”
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“If ‘The Confessions’ doesn’t quite offer the same sense of audience communion as Zeldin’s previous work, as a gesture, it is moving...And as he has shown us before, there is pride, hope and an epic sweep to even the most ordinary story.”
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