British Comedy Guide

Matthew Kelly (I)

  • English
  • Actor and comedian

Press clippings

Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor review

Dazzling Felicity Kendal conquers time in a tour de force of comedic playing.

Ismene Brown, The Arts Desk, 11th October 2024

Filumena review

Felicity Kendal positively glows in the title role as a former prostitute and her lifelong love affair with a wealthy man-about-town.

Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail, 10th October 2024

Filumena review

This is a period play that resonates today, is extremely well set and acted, and makes for a very enjoyable and engaging Autumn night out at the theatre.

Nick Wayne, West End Best Friend, 10th October 2024

Filumena, Theatre Royal, Windsor, review

Felicity Kendal enchants in this evergreen comedy of gender politics.

Lindsay Johns, The Telegraph, 10th October 2024

Filumena review

Felicity Kendal is the bright spark in this revival of Eduardo De Filippo's Neapolitan comedy.

Holly O'Mahony, The Stage, 10th October 2024

Filumena review

Felicity Kendal is fabulous, but this production is not. It totters from one mildly amusing plot twist to another.

Clive Davis, The Times, 10th October 2024

Inside No. 9: Boo To A Goose review

Not quite all human life is encapsulated within the characters trapped in carriage C9 when the power fails, but quite a lot of it is.

Chortle, 8th May 2024

The Gap: Matthew Kelly delivers big laughs, but the play is only skin-deep

Jim Cartwright's latest sees two old friends reminisce about their heady youth, but it tends merely to bump over the surface of their lives.

The Telegraph, 16th February 2024

The Gap review

The actors are lumbered with an unnecessary welter of tertiary characters who they simply send up with ridiculous costumes. After treating the central pair so fatuously, the play reaches at the end for unearned pathos where it expects us to suddenly care. The distance between this and a rich, layered, rounded play isn't a gap, but a gulf.

Matt Barton, What's On Stage, 16th February 2024

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