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Labour of Love review: These Lefties are all right!
The audience enjoyed the nostalgia, sighing happily when they saw Teletext, a fax machine and an early Nineties mobile telephone. Though it may return one day, at present political centrism seems to have gone the same way as those defunct innovations and that makes this play feel less potent and truthful than it might have done a year or so ago. I'm afraid that, at present, not even the most artful West End production can match real politics for raw theatre.
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, 6th October 2017Labour of Love, Noel Coward Theatre, London, review
It's rare that five minutes go past without a proper roar of laughter.
Holly Williams, The Independent, 6th October 2017Labour of Love review - Noel Coward Theatre London
Overall, Labour of Love is a wonderful example of how a play about politics can not only be educational but also entertaining as well.
Terry Eastham, London Theatre 1, 6th October 2017Review: Tamsin Greig & Martin Freeman in Labour Of Love
James Graham's new political comedy drama is astoundingly current.
John Nathan, Metro, 5th October 2017Review: Labour Of Love, Noel Coward Theatre
Beautifully researched, the play never preaches as the characters are so real and enjoyable.
Paul T. Davies, BritishTheatre.com, 5th October 2017Labour of Love review - light, political and nostalgic
Labour of Love is ideal West End fodder: light, political and nostalgic. It's not great comedy, but it's a good play and perfectly performed.
Tim Bano, The Stage, 4th October 2017Labour of Love: valid and valiant response
It possibly ranks as one of Tamsin Greig's finest hours, even if this isn't James Graham's - the script contains a handful of the most laboured gags you'll hear outside the perimeters of the party conferences, the sitcom-ish second scene urgently needs fixing and poor Rachael Stirling as Lyons's unsupportive wife is saddled with the sort of horsey, stuck-up stereotype even Class War would find lacking in nuance. Not a landmark theatrical victory, at the final count, but valid and valiant all the same.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 4th October 2017Labour of Love review
Above all, it's a play about love - of party, friends, country - and it's testament to Labour that despite an impressively long history of self-destruction, you can't for a second imagine a play like this being written about the other lot. Raise the scarlet standard high!
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out, 4th October 2017Labour of Love, theatre review
Labour Party play makes West End a safe seat for James Graham.
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 4th October 2017Review: Labour of Love
Sharp and funny political rom-com hits upon a winning combination.
Ann Treneman, The Times, 4th October 2017