“Super is fresh, funny and entertaining – with the dazzling emotional smarts of Pixar’s Inside Out and the searing simplicity of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Super is outstanding theatre. While allegories are by their nature didactic and can feel moralistic (and tedious), Super slithers out of easy categorisation, while delivering a super entertaining, whip-smart and funny Trojan horse full of possible meta and existential readings.” READ FULL REVIEW

“Emilie Collyer’s new play Super gives us a fantastically silly and strange sideswipe at the superhero tropes we’ve inherited. It’s a full-throttle feminist funfest that will tickle those who love the grandiose cosplay and game-changing powers of superhero stories, while dodging hypermasculinity and ultra-violence, launching a guerrilla attack on gender inequality, and celebrating female friendship into the bargain.” READ FULL REVIEW goes here

“Collyer seems less invested in ridiculing the superhero genre’s nonsenses than inexploding and reconstituting them as a sort of funhouse mirror reflection. Her writingis sharp and witty and, as with her terrific 2015 play, Dream Home, probes contemporary anxieties and obsessions with relish. Super feels, refreshingly, neither identitarian nor issues-based in its conception, even if it does touch on real-worldproblems like family violence and gender discrimination. Its form, too, is bracing,eschewing the naturalism that dominates our stages in favour of a pushed up, lightly absurd theatricalism.”

“Under the direction of Emma Valente, Super explodes onto the stage – the colourfully costumed characters running and tumbling through the stark white, Swiss cheese set. Collyer’s simple premise and intimate character interactions swell to fill the space, turning even the simplest of interactions into a vivid display of action. Super is a clever excavation of our dream to be more than what we really are, grappling with a society that forces us to question our own power – super or not.” READ FULL REVIEW