21 May 2006
Sunday Times
The Changeling
If Strindberg had been a Jacobean, this is the sort of play he’d have written. Its ingredients are social resentment, lust spiced up by revulsion, love that never has a chance, black, gruesome humour and insanity.

21 May 2006
The Observer
Drowning his sorrows in style
Cheek by Jowl do inspired lunacy at the Barbican...

17 May 2006
The Metro
Bordering madness and sanity
Few plays pit lust and madness together so powerfully as Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's dark 1622 study of sexual obsession...

17 May 2006
The Independent Online Edition
The Changeling, Barbican, London
...the play itself, surely one of the greatest plays about ungovernable lust and human frailty ever written, and rarely done with such clarity or purpose as in Declan Donnellan's production...

16 May 2006
The Guardian Online Edition
The Changeling
Madness, as much as passion, spins the plot in Middleton and Rowley's dark Jacobean masterpiece. And the supreme virtue of Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl production is that the two qualities are virtually inseparable: love and lunacy join hands in a production marked by unity of purpose and what one character calls "shivering sweat".

8 May 2006
The Telegraph Online Edition
From kitchen table to global stage
Cheek by Jowl has been dazzling theatre festivals for 25 years now. As it moves into its new home at the Barbican, its founders tell Dominic Cavendish how it all began.

23 February 2006
The Independant Online Edition
Thomas Middleton's dramas return to the stage

4 February 2006
Guardian Unlimited
As he likes it
Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl ensemble returns to London with The Changeling, marking a significant step-change in his, and British theatre's, development