What the AUSTRALIAN PRESS has said about Chris Kirby’s “LIPS”

“Funny, frightening, extraordinarily well written...One liners combine with surrealism and psycho-sexual imagery…A witty and disturbing cocktail…Lips is very very good.”
Jim Schembri – Melbourne Age

“An astonishing ability!”
Sun Herald – Sydney

“A theatrical coup…Lips does what theatre does best…splendid mix of fact, fiction and fantasy…a thread of classic horror.”
Theatre Australasia

“A professional at suspended disbelief!”
On Stage – Melbourne

“…a fine and versatile actor…a comedian in his own right…a pleasure to watch him work.”
Jewish News – Sydney

What the London Press said about LIPS at the NEW END THEATRE HAMPSTEAD.

“Fascinating, bizarre play…tremendously engaging performer…LIPS is the most original show on the fringe…comes from the same dank and wonderful reservoir of the imagination as Being John Malkovitch; the kind of a play that has the rare power to infiltrate one’s dreams.”
Robert Lloyd Parry – Hampstead & Highgate Express

“We’re not talking Sooty here. An ingratiating smoothie in checked trousers …enjoyable…spooky…Infectious.
Jane Edwardes – Time Out.

“Class act…genuinely funny…has the audience hanging on his every word… down, deep down, into Lips’s inner demons…superb ventriloquism skills… several virtuoso sequences…strangely touching…”
Nigel Cliff – The Times

“Seriously weird but constantly fascinating…an endearing actor…worth our attention…”
Sheridan Morely – International Herald Tribune, The Spectator.

“Hugely likeable … his comic timing, seasoned old-pro confidence and, above all, consummate ventriloquism skills, are a joy to behold…flashes of sheer genius…
Oliver Jones – What’s On In London.

“Evocative and engaging twists…Frequently laugh out loud funny…moving…an inventive talent.”
Gerald Berkowitz – The Stage.

“…he uses this vaudevillian and somewhat creepy ‘gift’ in ways that will astonish …a surreal and clever piece of theatre…A disturbing psychological journey… takes the dying art of ventriloquism to new places: dark, surreal and even psychosexual places…a unique theatrical experience, LIPS is brilliantly performed and innovative.”
Kylie Northover – TNT Magazine.

“A superb technician…a dazzling, hilarious, surreal and disturbing evening…”
William Russell -The HERALD.

“A fresh new spin…clever and intriguing…we are with him all the way…deft at suspending our disbelief…a highly original and amusing evening’s entertainment.”
Southern Cross Magazine.

and from London about the script...

“Handled with deft sureness of tone…without once losing his footing…a deliciously unsettling spin under the text…a hugely impressive piece of work…accessible, witty, moving, involving.”
The London Company International Plays Ltd. Reader’s Report.