Lidless Awards

Winner | Fringe First Award 2010

Nomination Best Actress, Penny Layden | The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence

Lidless Reviews

The Stage | Must See

'Every element of the drama is first-rate from design to direction and with flawless acting in between'

The Observer

'A terrific marriage between plot and place, and I left well shaken'

The Guardian

'This is powerful stuff, and it is certainly powerfully acted in a neatly pitched production'

***** FIVE STARS, The Scotsman

'If Henrik Ibsen had been alive in the era of Guantanamo, he'd surely have written a play every bit as scintillating as Lidless'

***** FIVE STARS, Broadway Baby

'One of the Fringe's most astounding and emotion-fuelled plays'

**** FOUR STARS, The Telegraph

'An excellent new play brought to Edinburgh by HighTide; a very strong script by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig'

**** FOUR STARS, The Independent

'Vital new writing from a talented new voice'

**** FOUR STARS, Whatsonstage

'A powerful new drama'

**** FOUR STARS, The Herald

'In a different league altogether is Lidless, a gripping, ambitious and intimate five-hander'

**** FOUR STARS, Financial Times (Twitter)

'Excellent'

**** FOUR STARS, British Theatre Guide

'A cut above 99% of the work currently on show in Edinburgh, helped by Steven Atkinson’s excellent direction and a strong cast'

**** FOUR STARS, Three Weeks

'An entirely believable, disturbing and uncomfortably beautiful world'

**** FOUR STARS, Edinburgh Spotlight

'It is a Lidless box of engaging, thought-provoking, intelligent human theatre'