Greta Garbo Came to Donegal

Time Out“A moving and mannered comedy...” Garbo and Paulie, one high maintenance and the other forthright, are beautifully played and their relationship is the highlight of McGuinness's play. Elsewhere it is often too crammed with incident to be credible...

The Independent“Full of artfully angled and emotionally convincing contradictions...” With a drop-dead witty delivery of direct, tact-free home truths, Caroline Lagerfelt is wonderfully good as Garbo. In fact, she is more striking than Garbo, whose eyes never brimmed with such elusive, hard-won humour...

The Times“An absorbing but dramatically untidy play...” What, if anything, will Garbo do to help solve the conflicts that are none of her concern and, frankly, come across as somewhat formulaic? But Nicolas Kent’s production holds the attention...

Financial Times“There is an air not just of personal portent but also of political...” Much of the first half of the play feels like an obvious fantasy, but a delicious one; much of the second follows a conventional scheme of family revelations, but does so with sensitivity...

New Statesman“Not yet reviewed”

The Stage“An engaging new play...” Lagerfelt does her best to make this strange, elegant creature human, but she is mainly a collection of self-absorbed pronouncements dressed up as aphorisms. McGuinness is a humane writer, however...

this is london“The actors revel in the quality of the writing...” McGuinness has a weakness for going on longer than he should, and here he labours his conclusion. There are also odd anachronisms in the costumes. But there is a huge amount to admire in this painful, compassionate and skilfully imagined play...

Whatsonstage.com“Well organised and intensely enjoyable...” Lagerfelt is a perfect Garbo, high cheek-boned, funny, not remotely caricatured or ridiculous. She finds similarities in the landscape with her native Stockholm, and the play proves a two-way ticket to understanding in a surprising, skilful manner..

The Telegraph“Deftly mixes humour and pain, good jokes and darker moods...” With the arrival of Greta Garbo, the play really sparks into life. The great screen icon, in her early sixties when the play is set, is played with poised beauty, fascinating reserve and a bone-dry wit by Caroline Lagerfelt...

Guardian“This ­rivetingly plausible evocation of a screen icon is well supported...” Although the play traverses familiar territory, there is a ­stunning performance from the ­American actor Caroline Lagerfelt as Garbo. She not only has the right look of attenuated grace: she also captures her nomadic ­restlessness...