The dialogue is exquisite. It does more than simply jump off the page, it leaps out grabs you by the throat and smacks you around. A truly original well-written piece that succeeds in doing what I always want from a good play. To learn. To think. To laugh. To cry. To feel. -- Roy Williams OBE, playwright
Beautifully pared down, the rhythms of life are really there. The writers have given a voice to those who have none. -- Jane Boston, Senior Lecturer and Head of International Voice * Central School of Speech and Drama *
A play like this helps to dash the misconceptions that children get into the care system because of something they have done wrong. A moving experience to watch as the story unfolds and one that needs to be put there for the public to see. -- Pam Redican * Principal of Wings School, Cumbria and Nottinghamshire. Winner of the Pride of Britain Award for her dedication to the education and care of 'difficult' young people *
Uncompromising depiction of urban life..this is a raw punchy piece. -- Henry Hitchings * Evening Standard *
Powerful new play ... The dialogue continually bubbles with unpredictable comic life ... Agonising and funny at the same time. -- Paul Taylor * Independent *
A raw edgy piece. Punchy dialogue..a sharp understanding of displaced people. The play's portrait of a social system that offers care but no protection leaves an uneasy aftertaste. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *
A gripping new chamber play. A disturbing portrait of a feckless white youth. The storyline's fragmented glimpses are intriguing. -- Kate Bassett * Independent on Sunday *
A bruising sad play. Very good on the painful relationship between father and son. A painful, promising play..it ends wisely and movingly. -- Sarah Hemming * Financial Times *
The dialogue is always lean and accurate. Absorbing, unflinching. -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times *
A play written - rather exceptionally - by a writer/performer in her sixties and an actor in his twenties. Clarity of intention..that thoroughly grips. -- Dominic Cavendish * Daily Telegraph *
Unique as a piece of new writing. Fog has a tenderness and subtlety. A subtle study of lives adrift. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out *
Hard-hitting and devastatingly pointed writing. -- Martin Newman * Huffpost Culture *
A fierce heart breaking snapshot of the concrete horizons and posturing demotics of inner-city London estates. Effortlessly captures the under-siege mentality of inner-city culture..in a play you wish was twice as long. -- Claire Allfree * Metro (London) *
There is real craft in this writing collaboration. -- John Nathan * Jewish Chronicle *
A bruising lyrical short about teenagers in London whose quality and impact suggests that 2012 in London's only wine bar theatre, will be as impressive as it was in 2011. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out *
A thumping, emotionally fraught and brilliantly written play. Emotionally devastating. -- Aleks Sierz * Stage *
At its best, the language of the play feels like it's been inhaled through a water pipe and then exhaled to the beat of drum 'n' bass. It burns, it stings, it makes your blood tingle...there's an intensity and a rush to the dialogue that gives the work its emotional punch...Fired up by this linguistic energy, Fog is sometimes frightening in its anger and desperation. It rushes along like a roach flushed down a plughole. A story that leaves you stunned by its violence, and its terrible sadness...Fierce and terrifying. -- Aleks Sierz * Arts Desk *
Funny, powerful and very, very real, it is also mesmerisingly sad..masterful writing put(s) Britain's care system on trial in courageous new play. -- Martin Newman * Mirror *
A painful, promising play, raising the thorny issue of fatherless boys and of young care leavers and their difficulties. -- Sarah Hemming * Financial Times *
The dialogue continually bubbles with unpredictable comic life. A collaboration made in the vicinity of heaven. -- Paul Taylor * Independent *
'Fog' is unique as a piece of new writing. Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton's (play) benefits richly from the verve and faux-yardie argot of youth and the poignant wisdom of experience. Aching and explosive. -- Caroline McGinn * Time Out *
Funny, powerful and very, very real, it is also mesmerisingly sad. -- Martin Newman * Mirror *
