“Equal parts funny and touching... Witty and delightful, [Ms Samantha Mann’s] answers are at one moment poignant, the next side-splitting... If you’re looking for something lighthearted and funny, but still with heart and hope, Dear Samantha is just the right show for you.”
“We have all known someone who chatters on and on in a never-ending stream of consciousness, moving from one topic to another without pausing for breath. Samantha keeps this up for 70 minutes, and it is hilarious!”
“Disarmingly funny and surprisingly therapeutic... both comedic and cutting.”
“[Ms Samantha Mann’s] satirical sense is dryer than a vermouth-free martini.”
“A finely tuned performance... By turns humorous and heartfelt.”
“As an improv artist, [Ms Samantha Mann’s] brain is quick and clever.”
“An incredibly charming individual full of the most lovable oddities and idiosyncrasies, Ms Samantha Mann will have you laughing, crying and questioning your own faults and habits.”
“[Ms Samantha Mann’s] clumsiness and unconscious candour are both startling and endearing, and if this one basic joke is constantly repeated, that’s only because it gets funnier and funnier each time.”
“Snappy, witty, hilarious, lightly outrageous and always sharply-observed. Comedy at its best.”
“Shows like this are good art. They remind us that everyone matters, that the universe would be less without any one of us.”
“Ms Samantha Mann is simply delightful.”
“This is the kind of show whose poignance stays with you long after the last laugh has drifted away.”
“Do not think of this as therapy in public, think of it as an exposé of the mores of Middle England... Charming with an acerbic underside.”
“Outstanding... incredibly clever... A class act.”
“What seems, at face value, to be a light-hearted comedy about an inept middle-aged spinster attempting poetry is actually a very, very clever piece of solo theatre... one of the best performances I’ve seen.”
“Delivering plenty of laugh-aloud surprises yet concealing a sharp-edged poignancy too.”
“Wry, mischievous and strangely moving, Samantha Mann’s Stories About Love, Death & A Rabbit is a beguiling and ultimately uplifting experience - something like the secret life of Miss Prism imagined by Alan Bennett and performed by Hinge or Bracket.”
“With such a tour de force of acting it almost wouldn’t have mattered what the poetry was like, but it turned out to be just the right level of painfully mediocre.”
“Samantha Mann is a minutely observed comic creation for those who love cringe humour.”
“Delightfully feminist... It’s a feel-good hit.”
Photograph at the top of this page by Bylgja @ Gallery Undirheimar