“Populated by a typically broad range of searchers, survivors and misfits, 10 Days on Earth is one of his most finely constructed scripts.”
“Part of the great Ronnie Burkett tradition, which allows puppets to walk the mean streets of the soul. Engagingly weird and attractively perverse, it’s largely alternative in the best sense.”
“Ronnie Burkett’s creations are remarkable feats of both manipulation and imagination.”
“Enormously imaginative, improbably moving and wonderfully life-affirming, 10 Days on Earth shows the MEN Theatre Award-winning Burkett is still pulling all the right strings in splendid style.”
“A sensitive, hilarious and uplifting exploration of home, family and what it means to be different.”
“Ronnie Burkett has done it again. The master puppeteer makes his latest play
so complete a piece of theatre that it eclipses many efforts involving big budgets
and casts of real actors."
“Burkett's nonhuman actors transcend and transform grief in a profound
affirmation of human resilience."
“A performance of remarkable technical skill and dazzling artistry."
“The marionettes are beautifully sculpted and costumed and with every gesture amplified by their smallness, these two-foot actors are oddly commanding. Even though their faces are immobile, at times you could swear that they change expression.”
“A beautiful and chilling tale that will take you on a journey across a range of emotions and leave you questioning how a cast of puppets could be so emotionally disarming.”
“Ronnie Burkett’s 10 Days on Earth is about as close to a masterpiece that you can get.”
“It is a virtuoso performance.”
“Burkett has created a vision of striking beauty, both in his script and in his play’s rich production – a portrait that has been written, drawn and painted with undeniable skill.”
“Very charming, witty and highly amusing tale of innocence and its loss.”
"10 Days on Earth is a deceptively simple story told with wit, insight, sensitivity and affection."
“This is an immensely moving production, achingly sad, real and suffused with melancholy. Burkett began as an entertainer and he’s become an artist.”
“The puppets live; we share their humanity…and Burkett’s marionettes seem able, somehow, to convey things no mere human actor can. Or should.”
“Burkett’s technique is superb, it’s completely unnoticeable – at times it seems he’s transmitted his own life force into the marionettes. They breathe, laugh, weep, sing – and die.”
“10 Days on Earth is art of the highest order. Burkett is an artist. And having painted the marionette equivalent of the Sistine Chapel in all its flash and colour, he’s now content to step back and show us the delight and humanity he can find in a single piece of stone.”
“Burkett is an artistic treasure. It takes your breath away. Burkett takes us into the world with marionettes that we swear, as I say, are human. Amazing work here.”
“Full of his hugely expressive puppets, poignant and witty dialogue and powerful dramatic situations.”
“It can’t be easy to make this kind of artistry look easy. Somehow, Burkett always does.”
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Manchester Evening News, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2007 [pdf]
The Times, London, United Kingdom [pdf]
TimeOut, London, United Kingdom, 2007 [pdf]
The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, 2007 [pdf]
Sydneystage.com, Sydney, Australia, 2007 [pdf]
Sydneystage.com, Sydney, Australia, 2007 [pdf]
The Province, Sunday, December 10, 2006 [pdf]
Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2006 [pdf]
SEE Magazine, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2006 [pdf]
Edmonton Sun, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2006 [pdf]
Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2006 [pdf]
Calgary Sun, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2006 [pdf]
CBC Radio, Calgary, AB, Canada [pdf]
Here and Now HR1 CBL-FM, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2006 [pdf]
Toronto Sun, Toronto, ON, Canada, , 2006 [pdf]
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