Sweet Nothings

Time Out“Precise and piercingly painful...” Bondy's direction is arresting and absorbing, with the quality of a carefully choreographed yet volatile dance. And the performances are terrific...

Financial Times“A play in which the ground shifts beneath the characters’ feet...” When the production hits home it does so brilliantly, creating a desperate sense of misplaced longing, and the ending is harrowing...

The Times“Not yet reviewed” You’d hardly believe the movement and energy that the director generates on a round, raised stage by four young people, all excellently played by tyro actors, who are enjoying a boozy, louche party...

this is london“The story is far from complicated, and its trajectory predictable...” Luc Bondy’s production invests the action with the qualities of dance: it’s sometimes dreamy, sometimes painfully precise. The movement, which involves physical risk, is sublimely achieved, and the relationships quickly seem plausible...

The Independent“Schnitzler skewered this society with an acute psychological penetration...” The dramatist's vision is conveyed now in a brilliant, intensely deliberate and eerily stylish production by the Vienna-based, Swiss-born director Luc Bondy...

The Stage“David Harrower’s text is excellent...” As Bondy expertly evokes the Vienna of the 1890s, we catch a glimpse of a life of desire and self-destruction...

Whatsonstage.com“European retro chic has swept into the Young Vic with a vengeance...” Bondy and his designers Karl-Ernst Herrman and Moidele Bickel have reconfigured the Young Vic with stark architectural verve: a circular raised stage revolves slowly in an art deco limbo of severe white walls and a purple drum...

Guardian“The performances throughout are as impeccable as the production...” This revival of his 1895 play, Liebelei, in a new version by David Harrower and an exquisite production by Luc Bondy, offers a damning portrait of Viennese decadence without ever reverting to overt moralising...

Remotegoat.co.uk“Not yet reviewed”

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”