Once: The Musical

'Miraculously retains the intimate feeling and freshness of fringe... it's funny, it's truthful, it sings. If London audiences don't love it to bits I disown them'

* The Times *

'Wins you over with its simplicity, charm and air of melancholy'

* Guardian *

'There is genuine warmth and inclusiveness to this show... best of all is Enda Walsh's script, which has great, puckish fun applying a bit of Brechtian silliness to the romcom formula'

* Time Out *

'Quiet, wistful, tender... it has a delicate soulfulness and a truthful charm'

* Evening Standard *

'Charmingly funny and affecting... demonstrates the power of music both to express deep psychic hurt and to perform a cure of sorts'

* Independent *

'Walsh captures the fragile charm of the original movie in a book bursting with unexpected humour... offers a glimmer of sophistication to audiences tired of back-catalogue musicals and asinine plots'

* The Stage *

'The musical has a masterful, even revelatory, book by the Irish playwright Enda Walsh... it is no traditional screen-to-stage adaptation. Rather, it's a textbook example of how to do it right.'

* Chicago Tribune *

'Original and emotionally exhilarating.'

* Washington Po