Gant, vulpine and sinister in Simon Kunz's creepily conducive performance, appears on Tom Scutt's atmospheric fit-up design of bare boards, plush curtains, footlights and gilded pilasters, with ingenious scenic amendments. .. The device of a travelling freak-show is not just a sweetener, though, but is fully enjoyed for its own sake, as evident in the design, fully maintained in the lighting of Malcolm Rippeth, the atmospheric soundtrack of composer Tom Mills and the succession of theatrical tricks involving disembodied heads, swishing scenic curtains, flickering footlights and copious squirtings and spurtings of various liquids and bodily fluids.
- The Independent (****)

Steve Marmion’s production, beautifully designed by Tom Scutt and cunningly lit by Malcolm Rippeth, is full of bravura and unusual visual gags, not to mention the bizarre, slightly repellent spurts of blood and pus decorating the stage.
- What's On Stage (****)

 Beautifully designed by Tom Scutt to look like a magical pop-up Victorian theatre, Steve Marmion's production is full of gusto...This is a filthy evening of theatrical bad taste.
- The Guardian

Designer Tom Scutt's contribution is substantial. The show looks fantastic. A small proscenium with doors and sliding flats is meticulous, colourful and offers opportunities to surprise and enchant - a shadow screen is used with economy for instance. Throughout the finish is detailed and the costumes are witty, well thought-out and interesting.
- Reviews Gate

Headlong’s deployment of visual and aural accompaniments, chiefly the work of designer Tom Scutt, lighting designer Malcolm Rippeth and composer Tom Mills, shrewdly makes full use of the play’s sprightly pace and replicates the style and technological limitations of a Victorian freak show evocatively
- What's On Stage Yorkshire (****)

It begins beautifully. Framed by the red plush and papery panels of Tom Scutt's design (like a toy theatre grown life-sized) freakshow host Edward Gant introduces his grotesques with ghastly charisma.
- Time Out

 Steve Marmion’s revival revels in the tinselled excesses and hyperboles of Gant’s oversize toy-theatre, gorgeously realised and equipped with all manner of old-fashioned stage trickery by designer Tom Scutt.
- London Theatre Blog