Barrie Ingham as Beverly Carlton

"Barrie Ingham is subtle, skilful, very amusing and, in truth, so much more than a send-up that the comic integrity of the performance threatens to steal the show"
Christopher Edwards in The Spectator
"Barrie Ingham celebates his long overdue return to the RSC - masterly - every clipped consonant and attitudinising posture is precisely calculated"
Michael Billington in The Guardian
"John Wood is matched by a brilliant performance by Barrie Ingham that he delivers with lip smacking relish. It's the clash of two titanic egos when this pair meet"
Maureen Paton in The Daily Express
"The audience warms ... to continuous laughter during the incursion of Beverly Carlton performed to perfection by Barrie Ingham"
The Observer
"Barrie Ingham rescues the act with a nonchalant performance as a vast ego and a deliciously, wicked Coward parody"
The Independent
"Barrie Ingham is a clever mixture of Douglas Fairbanks and Noel Coward"
Sunday Times
"Barrie Ingham .. more like Errol Flynn than Coward, makes a great thing of that wonderful pastiche number (by Cole Porter) 'What Am I to Do?'"
Financial Times
"Barrie Ingham is:-"
'Appropriately grand'
Hirsschorn, Sunday Express
'Marvellously camp'
Shulman, Evening Standard
'Recklessly showy'
Wardle, The Times
'The arrival of the cavalry'
Tinker, Daily Mail