The Independent, Shock of the new, 17 April 2002 The Guardian, Saturday April 13, 2002 by Rupert Smith Guardian, February 21, 2001, Piccadilly Theatre, London by Lyn Gardner The bogeyman is back - this time he's angry An inspired tale of youthful stupidity "Going Bump (and Worse) in the Night and Onstage" THE NEW YORK TIMES The Creepy Chaos behind 'Shockheaded Peter' (Slide Show) THE NEW YORK TIMES "Lifting a Musty Curtain for a Peek Inside 'Shockheaded Peter'" THE NEW YORK TIMES "'Shockheaded Peter': Willing to Risk a Culture Without Labels" THE NEW YORK TIMES "One of the must-sees of the decade" THE GUARDIAN "Cancel all other engagements for this gorgeously gory glory of a show" THE INDEPENDENT "'Peter': Wickedly Delightful" THE WASHINGTON POST "Deliriously funny children's stories, staged as junk opera" THE EXPRESS "The most imaginative, gruesomely enjoyable and surely award-winning shows of the year" DAILY MAIL "A highly original, deeply sinister and utterly beguiling junk opera" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "Sensational, in every sense of the word...With or without a child, it's a killer of a night" THE INDEPENDENT EYE "Wonderfully, funnily horrid.....Darkly funny, ravishingly inventive production drags adults, kicking and screaming with delight, back into Hoffmann's horrid world" EVENING STANDARD "Marvellously original and atmospheric show....A triumph of compelling nastiness" DAILY TELEGRAPH "This hilariously ghoulish spectacle is sensational in every respect" INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "It's crackingly funny and deliciously sinister. If you want to scare the kids to death and have a good time yourself, this is just unmissable" THE EXPRESS ON SUNDAY "Naughty girls and romping boys tear their clothes and make a noise in the big hair and squeezebox extravaganza" TIME OUT "The performances are masterful....Very, very nasty. But oh so nice" THE GUARDIAN "The best new London musical premiere...the effects are stunning...visually it's gorgeous" THE EXPRESS

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