what the papers say
'The most blissfully funny and touching evening I've had in the theatre for ages.
Simm and Bower are sensational, and there is brilliant support from Jonathan Cecil as a poet with writer's block, Keir Charles as the social worker and Ingrid Lacey as an assortment of angels and devils. Rare, very rare.'
The Guardian
'The performances are a joy. Simm's Elling is a twitching, acid-tongued, buttoned-up model of prissy precision, Adrian Bower's Kjell Bjarne loping, cuddly and malodorous, exactly the soulful-eyed orang-utan that Elling labels him. Watching them first resist, then connect with, a world that proves remarkably compassionate and accommodating is moving and very, very funny. Thoroughly life-affirming. '
The Times