'A darkly humorous debut from Lucy Kirkwood, a writer on Channel 4's Skins. Tinderbox conveys an underlying sense of dreary decay beneath a veneer of grotesque slapstick comedy: think Joe Orton with undertones of Samuel Beckett and a spattering of Sweeney Todd....The final act leaves audiences caught between nausea, laughter and despair.'
Sunday Times
'.... a lovely, bawdy, deliciously off-colour evening.'
'A darkly humorous debut from Lucy Kirkwood, a writer on Channel 4's Skins. Tinderbox conveys an underlying sense of dreary decay beneath a veneer of grotesque slapstick comedy: think Joe Orton with undertones of Samuel Beckett and a spattering of Sweeney Todd....The final act leaves audiences caught between nausea, laughter and despair.'
Sunday Times