Superior Donuts
Southwark Playhouse
By Tracey Letts
Directed by Ned Bennett
Design by Fly Davis
Costume Design Jessica Knight
Lighting Marec Joyce
Sound Giles Thomas
Composition Theo Vidgen
**** Financial Times, Telegraph, Independent
Fly Davis’s dead-beat designs, with their smeary display cabinets and health-hazard kitchen, make it clear why Arthur’s only customers are a bag lady (Amanda Boyle) whom he feeds for free, and a couple of cops (Sarah Ball and Alexander James Simon) who arrive to investigate a break-in. – Jane Shilling Telegraph
Beautifully judged UK premiere – Paul Taylor Independent
Fly Davis’ deliberately dilapidated design is falling away at the edges, its grubby walls at once sturdily worn and precariously fragile. It’s the sort of place that radiates the permanence of having been around forever and yet might disappear tomorrow, stamped out by the unstoppable advance of Starbucks. – Catherine love Exeunt
The growing rapport between Arthur and Franco is appealingly handled in Ned Bennett’s agile production, and Fly Davis’s detailed design creates an atmosphere of ramshackle idiosyncrasy – Henry Hitchings Evening Standard
The actors genuinely seem to inhabit their roles, and every inch of Fly Davis’s flyblown Chicagoan store – Michael Billington Guardian