Tour De Force

  • Young person's theatre at its very very best. Westfäalische Rundschau

The Importance of Being Earnest

  • 22nd March 2010.

    Dear Sarah Finigan, Emily Bowman, Arina Ii, Paul Shelford and Joseph Macnab

    We went to your show yesterday – the play „Importance of being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde and we just wanted to say how much we loved your performance. It was stunning! Your interpretation was hilarious and well delivered. We were positively surprised by your attitude towards the play – lighthearted and cheerful. If Oscar Wilde could see that he would laugh his socks off! We were particularly astonished by the way you used your bodies to express feelings and emotions in the play. By the way, we have never seen somebody spewing so far! Your rendition will surely be a great help for us when we will be doing this play on our English lessons. We would very much like to see more of your performances! Will you be coming to Lódz with any other?

    Best Wishes,
    Paulina Urbanek, Kuba Statnik, Marek Lachowicz

  • 25th March 2010.

    Dear Emily Bowman, Sarah Finigan, Arina Ii, Peter Joucla, Joseph Macnab and Paul Shelford

    We are writing to thank you for your exquisite performance that we saw yesterday. We really enjoyed it. Although we didn't know the story, your interpretation made us feel familiar with it. As IB students we'll read this drama for our English class, therefore we are glad to get such a unique experience. Thanks to your highly engaging performance we were hooked on this magnificent Victorian masterpiece. Your hilarious attitude towards classic literature has left us in stitches. We got to grips with Wilde's specific sense of humor and discovered comical characteristics of English Victorian society. You are all endowed with enormous talent and artistic intuition. It was a great pleasure to see you at work. Being an actor is not an easy piece of bread.. or muffin we ought to say. As we're at food issue, what made you use muffins instead of cucumber sandwiches??

    We thought that making Gwendoline such a strong character was an extremely beneficial move! Where did you get that idea? Most of the times she's shown as quiet and romantic, fragile creature. Will you ever return with some new material? We sure hope so. If you do, we'd appreciate an invitation :)

    Thank You again.
    Your fans, Amel, Magda and Ania.
    ps. You're great singers as well!

  • Outstanding acting achievements were rewarded by the Trier public with thunderous applause and a standing ovation. Trierischer Volksfreund

Le Petit Prince

  • A delightful play of the imagination, leaving plenty of room for poetry. Schwäbische Zeitung
  • The company succeeded again & again using dance, music and imaginative costumes in conjuring up a wonderfully magical atmosphere. Hats off for the director Peter Joucla who succeeds in taking the story from the realm of fantasy to the stage without losing any of its magic. Schwäbische Zeitung
  • The predominantly young audience in the sold out theatre followed every word of the French text with delight. Schwäbische Zeitung
  • The musician illustrates the episodes with exciting noises. We hear the splash of water when the Prince waters his rose, the hissing of the snake and the gluggling of the drunkard as he drinks. Schwäbische Zeitung
  • Three actors in formation holding a propeller out in front of them with two lightbulbs in each hand become a rickety aeroplane. Suddenly it crashes, the pilot rolls out and the audience applauds. Schwäbische Zeitung

Pygmalion

  • Delightful fun greeted with tumultuous applause and whistles of approbation. Ludenscheider
  • Fresh, cheeky and full of ideas, brilliantly balanced between seriousness and fun. Westfälische Rundschau

Jungle Book

  • The virtuosic ensemble built a bridge into the hearts of all the children in the audience. Fränkische Landeszeitung

The Ghosts of Poe

  • Mind-blowing...gruesomely beautiful. Frankische Handeszeitung
  • A successful stage adaptation of Poe horrors... brilliantly performed but not for weak nerves. Freising Wochenblatt

Dinner for One

  • Tour De Force served a light meal of typical British humour at the Teo Otto Theatre on Thursday night! In the first act, a mixed hors d'oeuvre of, among others, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward provided appetite for the main course which was to follow after the intermission, the legendary "Dinner for One"!...an excellent menu!.........In "Dinner for One", exaggeration was the method of choice, and it worked. Anne-Kathrin Reif, Remscheid Zeitung

1984

  • This new adaptation of George Orwell's "1984" continues a brilliant Tour De Force tradition. Schweinfurter Tagblatt

The Maids

  • [the production]... handsomely designed in red, white and black by Vali Mahlouji, gives vivid life to the rhetorical oppositions - of poetic and demonic language, of spittle and jewels, of rubber gloves and evening gloves - that structure the piece. Robert Shore, Time Out