THE COUNTRY BOY
2007

Sometimes it’s the simple pleasures that can be the sweetest.

In Zoë Seaton’s persuasive production for Big Telly’s 20th anniversary year, there is a double sense of homecoming, both in the play’s central storyline and in it’s return to the North, where it was premiered by the Ulster Group Theatre in April 1959.
The Irish Times, 16 February 2007

The Country Boy is never out of print and, at the end of their first two decades, the company's stalwart founders, Zoë Seaton and Jill Holmes have decided to throw a contemporary light on classic Irish drama with Murphy following Synge and Wilde.
Review by Ian Hill, 2007

Zoe Seaton’s production for Big Telly in its 20th anniversary year melds a fine group of soloists into a strong, coherent ensemble.

The ability to evoke a sense of place and populate it with sympathetically recognisable characters marks it as a piece worth holding on to, especially so in as sweetly affectionate a revival as this.
The Stage Online, 17 February 2007