ONE of the greatest benefits of Scotland’s capital city hosting the biggest arts showcase on the planet is that our August festivals are able to attract truly outstanding international work. One such is, without question, JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K.
~ The National Scotland

Poignant. 5 star. (The Life & Times of Michael K)
‍~ The Reviews Hub

There are rare occasions in the theatre when dance, film, music, adaptation, ensemble and puppetry combine to create magic. This is one of them. (Life & Times of Michael K)
‍~ Broadway World

This, of course, is the point of Little Amal—to use the visceral power of puppetry, and of theatre at its most disarming, to make us feel, and cajole us into considering what we owe to the most vulnerable among us. And ultimately, presumably, to act on that moral imperative.
‍~ The New York Times

The puppets, though, achieve an astonishing level of naturalism, and the final scenes, in which Ulisse dies remembering his first embrace with Penelope after more than 20 years, will have you in tears.
‍~ The Guardian

The puppets stole the show. Ulysses, past his hero’s days, was a world-weary bearded figure with a tattered blanket for a robe.
‍~ The New York Times

In the end, I found Little Amal's journey to be more than just an aesthetic spectacle. She changed the narrative of the night, leading us from spectacle to disorientation; from confusion to hope, awe, and potential.
‍~ The independent review crew