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“ …this story of adultery in apartheid South Africa is quietly preparing to break
your heart. By the time you leave the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, where “The Suit” runs through Feb. 2, you may feel you’ve experienced
devastation by enchantment. The sadness will linger, but so will an elating sense of this
show’s enfolding magic... Everyone onstage is pretty close to perfect.”
Ben Brantley, The New-York Times – 21/01/2013 - USA

“ … it exerts a formidable power, thanks in part to compelling performances by its
leads. Nadylam is superb as the husband whose cruelty is all the more chilling for its
forced casualness: “I see we have a visitor today,” he says at one point of his sartorial
interloper. The suit that figures so prominently onstage may be empty, but “The Suit” is
filled with emotion.”  Frank Scheck, The Huffington Post – 21/01/2013 - USA

“ …There may be no way to overestimate the lovely effect of this allegory about the
brilliantly malevolent punishment Philomen (William Nadylam) acts out on cheating wife
Matilda (Nonhlanhla Kheswa) […]. Themba's cautionary tale of revenge is profoundly
grim - as is the tragic outcome with its moral about the wages of unforgiving retribution
- but Brooks has a transcending notion. He presents it as a 75-minute entertainment
that rather than undermining the story immeasurably enriches it.”
David Finkle, New-York Post – 21/01/2013 - USA

★★★★★
“Brook's production is a minimalist masterclass, exquisitely performed and
almost unbearably moving.”
Mail on Sunday – 10/06/2012 - UK

★★★★★
"At the age of 87, Peter Brook is giving audiences a little masterclass in theatre
direction. […] Its three lead actors - Nonhlanhla Kheswa, William Nadylam and Jared
McNeill, all spectacular - shift between narrating the action and participating in it.
Meanwhile, three musicians play, or fall silent, as the mood decrees, as well as
accompanying Kheswa and McNeill in their sudden glorious bursts into song. The Suit,
then, is decidedly sui generis: an oddity. Yet it proves unforgettable. […] something in the
elliptical storytelling, and the absolute control that its changes of mood exert upon the
audience, feels like the product of Peter Brook’s infinite experience. This is theatre as
it should be.”
Laura Thompson, The Daily Telegraph – 25/05/2012 - UK

★★★★
“[…] This production, which is part of the pre-Olympics World Stages Festival, lasts
for just 75 minutes but it may stay much longer in the memory of those
lucky enough to catch it.”
Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail – 24/05/2012 - UK