Really Old, Like Forty Five

The Stage“A clever and powerful satire... ” Sometimes news stories just fall into the lap of playwrights. On the opening night of Tamsin Oglesby’s impressively multi-layered new play, which explores the reality of Britain’s ageing population...

Financial Times“It has wit, sympathy and, above all, anger...” Oglesby’s wrath at the way old people are treated comes raging over the footlights in bitter black humour...

The Telegraph“Bold mixture of the comic and the downright terrifying...” Somehow you keep laughing even as you find yourself engulfed in depression about the horrors of old age and the perniciousness of government...

The Times“Anna Mackmin’s production brings us fine performances...” Really Old is an uneven piece, which gets a bit becalmed, scattered and (to my ageing mind) confusing in the second half. But it would be complacent to dismiss it as just another exercise in paranoid futurism...

Whatsonstage.com“The writing is funny and clever...” But instead of suggesting that old age alone is the cause of amnesia or Alzheimer’s, her play more interestingly broadens the scope of the argument to encompass the whole human condition...

Guardian“Gawn Grainger as the hilariously age-obliterating brother...” ­Whatever its uncertainties of tone, I still warmly recommend Oglesby's play for ­recognising that we need to treat the old as human beings rather than statistics...

this is london“delightfully provocative title but not a beating heart... ” The contrast here between the personal and the political has bite, but there’s a frustrating uncertainty of purpose: is this satire, farce or a poignant danse macabre...

Remotegoat.co.uk“Not yet reviewed”

Time Out“Not yet reviewed”

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”