“ it needs a tip-top, fastidious, perfectly pitched production and, with director Emily Burns at the National, this is precisely what it gets” (Observer)
“Emily Burns’s beautifully sensitive revival is poignant, exquisitely performed theatre” (Telegraph) 
“Emily Burns’ direction of Dear Octopus at the National Theatre is immaculate.” (The Stage)

“the giddiest night of theatre you’ll have all summer” (Independent)
“perfectly paced, ideally calibrated production” (Variety)
“an enormously loveable show” (Sunday Times)

“Audacious and fleet-footed” (The Times)            
“a hybrid wonder and full of intelligent invention” (Guardian)
“Half as long and twice as good” (New York Times)

“Quicksilver capers, crisply directed” (Observer)
“It’s all an inch away from chaos and, since it’s perfectly timed and ruthlessly controlled,uproariously funny” (Variety)