Reviews

 

“Really well shot.  Manages to keep you intrigued to the end.  Well acted too.”  Paddy Considine on ZENITH HOUSE...  See Shooting People Best in Show for March 2011   Watch ‘Zenith House’


“Much depends on the actress playing Marilyn and Eva Gray does a superb job, moving easily from the frightened young girl moved around foster homes and into an orphanage to the adult she became, a star but still frightened of many things.  The role requires an intense concentration and Gray does not miss a trick.  The Monroe seen here, abused, desperate, keen to please and ultimately vulnerable, is very believable and understandable.”  Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post, on ALL THAT LOVING STUFF...  Read full review


“Eva Gray gives an absorbing performance, holding audience attention for more than two hours onstage.  She is bubbly, neurotic and shows abject terror when placed in a straitjacket receiving treatment for drugs.  In a powerful performance her features clearly reflect her feelings and changing moods.”  Peter Tatlow, The Stage, on ALL THAT LOVING STUFF


“Eva Gray takes the part of the icon star with assurance and conviction in a splendid performance.”  Jim Howie, Chester Mail, on ALL THAT LOVING STUFF


“Best of Fringe - This multimedia revival for the late Hawkwind singer Robert Calvert is a bonkers 1979 ski-fi about a woman (Eva Gray) who acquires a ‘psychechromic dress’ and other odd paraphernalia.” TIME OUT on MIRROR MIRROR


“It’s a brilliant and simple concept.  Through a two-way mirror the audience looks in at the future - or Robert Calvert’s 1979 version of the future - while simultaneously the players peer out for approval.  Eleanor (Eva Gray) instantly engages the audience in her world, as she glides around the front room of her glamorous apartment.  Her preening and pouting in front of her ‘intelligent’ mirror, and grimaces when she sees wrinkles and sags, make thrilled voyeurs of her audience.  Her mirror is supposed to reflect how her husband sees her - but surely there must be a technical fault?”  Emma Rose McGlone, L’Italo Europeo, on MIRROR MIRROR...  Read full review


“In her minimalist home, filled with metallic decor, technological wizardry and swirling artwork, pill-popping trophy wife Eleanor stares into a mirror designed to reflect how others see her, like a female version of Dorian Gray transported into an episode of The Jetsons.”  Sally Stott, The Stage, on MIRROR MIRROR...  Read full review


“Eva Gray plays Mrs Bryant with just the right balance of sexual guile and pathos as her grip on reality begins to slip.”  Adam Cole, Remotegoat, on MIRROR MIRROR...  Read full review


“Both Eva Gray and Christian Devellerez provide the perfect on-stage chemistry and, while Gray injects her character with just the right level of pathos, glam-boy Devellerez avoids bordering on camp.  The lines are delivered seamlessly and with perfect timing for inter-acting, something that’s even more important as Gray and Devellerez are the only two actors in the play.”  Claudia Andrei, Film News, on MIRROR MIRROR...  Read full review


“I was especially moved by Eva Gray’s performance - vulnerable, searching, delicate as it was.  She continues working during the other performers’ speeches, especially with her very communicative eyes.  I suppose we could describe what happens to Branwen as a small-scale tragedy and Gray was able to convey its sorrow and its limits very clearly.”  Alfred Corn, FAAP, on THE LONG MIRROR...  Read full review


“Branwen Elder (Eva Gray believably pulls off a difficult and multi-layered part) seems to know the most private thoughts of composer Michael Camber (David Manson) without ever having met him.”  Claudia Andrei, Film News, on THE LONG MIRROR...  Read full review


“Eva Gray, as Branwen, copes extremely well with a taxing role and an uncomfortably altruistic conclusion in which she gives Camber up.”  Kevin Berry, The Stage, on THE LONG MIRROR...  Read full review


“The actors and the setting manage to capture the eeriness of the story, creating an unnerving and unshakeable tension throughout.”  Sarah Marsh, Camden New Journal, on THE LONG MIRROR...  Read full review


“Eva Gray (in superb costume) subtly portrays the conflicts of love for her flawed husband and deep homesickness.” Adam Cole, Remotegoat, on IN GOOD KING CHARLES’ GOLDEN DAYS (with Toby Eddington as King Charles II)...  Read full review


“Eva Gray, as Julie, embodies sexual promiscuity and the injustice of the social hierarchy.  Her lustful dominatrix sexuality and ‘feminist’ upbringing spells the end of male sexuality.  A striking adaptation of a flawed masterpiece.”  Sara Newman, Camden New Journal, on MISS JULIE...  Read full review


“Passionate, yet more thoughtful and a little insecure, Ms Gray glitters as the second female presence.  She conveys a yearning frailty beneath her confident appearance.”  Kate Sherratt, Camden New Journal, on INTIMACY


“As Rirette, Eva Gray creates a touching portrait of a woman bravely keeping up appearances while struggling with poverty.”  Nick Eisen, The Ham and High, on INTIMACY


“Gray gives a natural and absorbing performance as Rirette, disregarding any compassion and creating a cold selfish character.”  Jeremy Austin, The Stage, on AFTER INTIMACY...  Read full review


“Eva Gray as the wistful Cecilia has a chance to shine in the second half in the difficult role of adding a little dramatic pathos to the fun.”  Catherine Gerbrands, The Stage, on THE UNREST CURE... Read full review


“The cast are superb, with each of the actors not only having a thorough understanding of the character they play, but having great fun with it... Eva Gray, as Ernest’s sister Cecilia, hits the right notes as her state of mind drifts between pathos, disillusionment, hope and longing for fulfilment.”  Claudia Andrei, Film News, on THE UNREST CURE...  Read full review


“The Unrest Cure is a light-hearted but engaging show, full of farce, fun and foppishness; thoroughly satisfying and entertaining.”  Pip Wroe, Camden New Journal, on THE UNREST CURE...  Read full review


“Founder of Pentameters Theatre and producer of The Unrest Cure, Léonie Scott-Matthews describes the theatre as North London's best-kept secret. It would be an injustice to the wonderful theatre itself and this hugely entertaining production not to let you in on it.” Vanessa Bunn, Extra Extra, on THE UNREST CURE...  Read full review


Léonie Scott-Matthews describes the theatre as the best kept secret in London and she might just be right about that. This new play based on familiar material certainly should not be kept secret - so take a walk up the narrow staircase and enter another world, more gentle, more funny and more silly than ours - and all the better for it.”  Gary Naylor, Westend Broadway World, on THE UNREST CURE...  Read full review