“These theatre artists clearly work out of a real shared sense of trust. They are college friends and retain a robust emotional honesty and playfulness, whether they are tackling Shakespeare or the sophisticated narrative of ideas contained in Water. Theatre is better at any other art form at expressing the connectedness of human beings, and this young triumvirate are better than most at sticking to their task. Their address to the audience is direct, open-hearted and engaging and the cross-disciplinary curiosity of Filter is a crucial part of their potential and their appeal. They explore the simple confessional like Spalding Grey, the complex imagery thrown up by a web of life like Robert Lepage, and they can dramatise and humanise an intellectual concept like Simon McBurney... but Filter remain very much themselves, quite unassuming, ‘English’, and full of more surprises to come.”
Michael Boyd / Artistic Director of the RSC / Daily Telegraph’s Talent for 2008