The Collection and The Lover - Donmar Warehouse, London 1998

Joe Harmston directs this ice-cold gem of a play (The Collection) with immaculate precision. The Lover is equally compelling. They are without doubt, the most disturbingly erotic dramas on the London stage.
Charles Spencer - The Daily Telegraph

Twenty-four carat theatre. Not to see these plays would be worse than a crime.
John Peter - The Sunday Times

It's Noel Coward on the surface, Strindberg underneath, an extraordinary study of the erotic games people play.
Michael Billington - The Guardian

The Collection..works a treat in Joe Harmston's production, as indeed does an even more sinister piece of similar vintage, The Lover.
Michael Coveney - The Daily Mail

Witness the superb double bill at The Donmar Warehouse... they are beautifully awake to the moment-by-moment nervous adjustments in Pinter's writing.
Alistair Macaulay - The Financial Times

This double bill is a veritable banquet.
David Benedict - The Independent

(The Collection is) a brilliantly funny play and in Joe Harmston’s production the actors realise its full comic potential. (The Lover is) a subtle and wholly gripping study in erotic game playing.
John Gross - The Sunday Telegraph

(The Collection) is spare, funny, tense, packed with menace, and extraordinarily intelligent.
Benedict Nightingale - The Times