Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1999
“Marlowe is a consummate actress; gorgeous to look at, slinky and sexy, sensual and impassioned, breathtakingly versatile. She can curse with alluring and compelling charm! It was brilliant. A veritable tour de force.”
The Scotsman
“Berkoff’s tight onomatopoeic verse is ridden like a wild stallion! It is a tribute to the genius of Berkoff and the awe inspiring greatness of Linda Marlowe’s acting”.
The List
“Linda Marlowe has become one of our most powerful uninhibited actresses and in this astonishing show, she is at the height of her powers. When she spreads her arms, she embraces the world. Her voice is an instrument of silk and seduction, frayed at the edges and pickled in port”
The Daily Mail
West End Reviews – New Ambassadors 2001
“Linda Marlowe is one of the great unsung actresses of the British stage and I’m here, I tell you, to sing her a song. This lady is a vamp in a black dress slit along her left thigh. She bites, she stings and she warbles. In sketches and set pieces by her friend and colleague, Steven Berkoff – the rash rottweiler of the East End sex war – she makes her mark as a West End star. It will be the talk of the town all week, and later this month when it returns – why? Because it drips with talent, lyricism, vulgarity, tenderness and charm. Move over Fiona Shaw as Medea She takes us on a rollercoaster of emotion as a gallery of girls and we love them all.”
The Daily Mail
“Marlowe’s association with Steven Berkoff goes back to the early seventies, performing in most of his key plays. As a result she knows his women perhaps better than the histrionic author himself. But nearly thirty years on, Marlowe’s undaunted metal is still in terrific shape. She switches from one character to another, here a devouring maw, there a seductive pussy cat and finally, a lonely, wounded mortal. She goes not just for Berkoffian hyperbole, but also for a more sophisticated syncopation, feasting and nibbling her way through the various texts. Not only is it a real pleasure to hear the fall register of Berkoff’s writing again, but also to see his finest collaborator in such libidinal flow.”
The Evening Standard
“I’m happy to confirm, on the shows London unveiling, that it is a thing of beauty. Marlowe’s performance is one of power and sensitivity – daunting and alluring but all the while she is smiling with us at the absurdity of sexual love. She combines venom with both a kind of majesty and the continuing vein of playfulness which runs through almost all the seventy minute show.”
The Financial Times
“Marlowe has a rare and spectacular ability for taking on, in every sense, the characters she plays, and to see the transformation completed so swiftly and thoroughly is breathtaking.”
The Metro
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