Press and mentions
“Susan Kyd as the Carousel’s earthy proprietor is sharply defined”.
CAROUSEL ENO 2017
Michael Billington Guardian
“Susan Kyd plays a superb Mrs Higgins, her withering glares cut her son down to size as she warms to Eliza in the most unexpected way. Reminiscent of Dame Judi Dench as Catherine De Bourg. You expect her to be cold and heartless towards Eliza, but even though she is completely aware of her background, she welcomes her nonetheless”
MY FAIR LADY 2018 Mill at Sonning
“All seven dancing girls can act, or maybe its the other way around; anyway they’re individuals, especially Susan Kyd’s snarp cookie”
“Susan Kyd is outstanding”
“The stars for me were the mismatched chorus girls. In the dance numbers only Susan Kyd would pass as a showgirl, and she knows it”
PAL JOEY! 1981 Albery Theatre.
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“And Susan Kyd as the bottom-twitching Sylv, also confirmed that Mr Berkoff has an eye for the motion of body-language”
“Susan Kyd delivers a heart rending performance as Sylv the spurned vamp with a heart of gold”
“ set speeches are spotlighted, including Sylv’s soliloquy on love, delivered with a brassy sadness by Susan Kyd”
“Also, though nobody would call Mr Berkoff a feminist, he writes extremely well for women. Stella Tanner and Susan Kyd are both given sequences of reminiscence, complaint and in Miss Kyd’s case-erotic fancy, which they take with gratitude as obvious as deserved. I believed in them as in very few female characters from male writers”
WEST 1983 Donmar Warehouse
Robert Cushman
“Susan Kyd ranks as one of the best Elviras I have ever seen. Wearing the traditional diaphanous dress she stands, or floats around with those ultra feminine looks. Her voice is attractive and one enjoys hearing Noel Coward’s writing given the expert treatment to which it is entitled.”
BLITHE SPIRIT Watermill Newbury 1987
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“Susan Kyd and Julia Swift seize their few chances, the one to be hoity-toity, the other to inspire her man from the back of a sofa.”
TIME AND THE CONWAYS Old Vic 1990
Michael Billington, Jack Tinker, Jeremy Kingston
“Susan Kyd as the much put upon wife is all sparkling eyes and mischievous ebullience as she thrills to the pursuit of Constant”.
THE PROVOK’D WIFE 1994
”The sublime Susan Kyd, in the performance of the evening”.
Scott Matthewson
TOTAL ECLIPSE Menier Chocolate factory director Paul Miller
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“Mrs Betterton played by the superb Susan Kyd, is an authority with the humorous aside, many pertinent to theatre today. Oracle-like with experience, Mrs Betterton marauds backstage as if it were her own. Onstage too she has all the nuances and tricks which allow her to live past her sell-by date as a player.”
“Especially impressive is Mrs Betterton played by Susan Kyd a powerful actress who perfectly captures the period style.”
PLAYHOUSE CREATURES Upstairs at the Gatehouse 2006
“Their production has the added strength of two actors older than the usual Frantic Assembly casting permits, the saturnine David Sibley and the magnificently sexy Susan Kyd, and the play is never dull for a moment”
“His wife (the exotic Susan Kyd) is a sultry vamp waiting to explode”
“Mum is a fading beauty who keeps her wrists supple by fixing martinis”
“The staccato pacing and spinning of Mr and Mrs Cave (David Sibley and Susan Kyd) is also a sharply punctuated study of frustration.”
RABBIT. Frantic Assembly Tour and Lyric Hammersmith 2003
Paul Taylor, Kate Bassett, Lyn Gardner
