Radiant Vermin

“A gift for savage prophecy is often unwelcome in society, and Ridley has it in abundance” – Independent

“Ridley is a master of modern myth” – Guardian

“Mr. Ridley . . . is high on my list of contemporary playwrights these days. He was always a writer of daring and satanic imagination, with a sui generis vocabulary to match . . . But more recently he's been weaving theatrical fantasies that bear the relation to everyday reality that your dreams, and especially your nightmares . . . The exotic worlds he conjures feel deeply familiar, even to the point of banality, which is what makes them all the scarier and all the more revelatory.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times

“accessible and overtly political . . . Ridley pictures consumerism at its most insane and destructive. He's on stingingly funny form” – Evening Standard

“cheerfully twisted social satire by Philip Ridley . . . Ridley - in full-on comic mode” – The Times

“It's a deeply macabre, stingingly funny modern fairy tale that shows its two protagonists wading deeper and deeper into murky moral territory. . . . It's deliberately outrageous and surreal but Ridley pulls it off brilliantly . . . A clever, funny and provocative cautionary fable.” – Financial Times

“Ridley's is a darkly funny morality play” – Guardian

“'Radiant Vermin' is an allegorical satire about the housing crisis that unfolds like a modern day Grimm tale. . . . It's a hysterically heavy-handed allegory for the ravages of gentrification . . . 'Radiant Vermin' works, because it's dispatched with such flippant glee by the writer . . . Philip Ridley: sicko, firebrand, and all-round entertainer.” – Time Out London

“brutal, deceptively buoyant satire on consumerist greed and rapacity, written by Philip Ridley, multi-talented maestro of East End Gothic and morally acute in-yer-face shockers . . . The play is very funny” – Independent

“no London writer has shown more literary potential than Ridley.” – Spectator