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Sydney Theatre Company - 1999
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"Ian Judge’s swift-flowing MACBETH affirms its faith in the language, poetry and unforgettable speeches to orchestrate a vivid, illuminating and 'musical' production. This is a glorious telling of MACBETH, one which enables us to 'hear' its voice of tyranny and conscience, and marvel at its wonders." - Sydney Morning Herald
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RSC - 1996/97
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RSC - 1996/97
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RSC - 1995/96
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"Ian Judge’s production has a spring in its step from the first; the actors plainly take pleasure in their parts, and the pleasure communicates itself to the audience." - The Telegraph
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RSC - 1994/96
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"Ian Judge’s new version of TWELFTH NIGHT produces the kind of ecstasy you find only in great comedy. After his COMEDY OF ERRORS and LOVE’S LABOURS LOST, he has pulled off a notable hat-trick. His secret is to have uncovered the essential Englishness that lies at the heart of these universal myths." - The Guardian
"Sexual attitudes fairly sizzle through Ian Judge’s exquisitely judged TWELFTH NIGHT. As marvellous and memorable a TWELFH NIGHT as you are likely to see in many a long year." - Daily Mail
"On the main Stratford stage, ‘Doctor Feelgood’ strikes again. The director Ian Judge has become the RSC’s ‘warm glow’ specialist and his Elizabethan, Stratfordian TWELFTH NIGHT is his third RSC comedy experience - you laugh and you cry." - The Observer
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RSC - 1994/96
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"A success the size of a giant Christmas tree appealing to the grown-up in the children and the child in the grown-ups… Ian Judge’s resplendent production combines the eeriness of the ghost story and the thrill of the fairy tale with the grubby realism of Victorian fiction." - Sunday Times "Take the kids to see these marvellous people cut a slice of theatrical perfection richer than any pudding. God bless them every one." - Today "All credit therefore to Ian Judge, always the most show-biz oriented of the current RSC team of directors, to have managed a lavish audience gift." - International Herald Tribune
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RSC - 1993/95
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"Director Ian Judge has won an enviable reputation for putting the fun back into Shakespearean profundities, and he has stamped an impressively definitive style on one of the Bard’s lighter works and turned it into pure delight." - Daily Mail
"Judge makes light of it all with his witty, playful and gorgeously dressed production. Judge is a master showman." - Daily Express "In Ian Judge’s Oxford circa-1913 production the humane values of the play are projected with great wit and felicity. A delightful production that unlocks the play’s verbal intricacy and generally shows Judge at his most judicious." - The Guardian
"As Ian Judge’s name has become a byword for elegance, eloquence and logic this evening is a huge success and destined to be the hit of the season." - Birmingham Post
"With a little light tampering the sound of music and gorgeous Edwardian scene-setting, Ian Judge has resuscitated Shakespeare’s obscurest comedy to make it young and fun again. The production fairly hums with laughter and happy invention." - Evening Standard "At the RSC’s annual governor’s meeting, the company’s president, Prince Charles, said that he usually left the theatre feeling more cheerful than when he went in. He’ll probably dance all the way along Waterside and into The Dirty Duck when he comes out of Ian Judge’s exuberant Brideshead Revisited LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST." - The Observer
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Chichester Festival Theatre - 1991
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"Worth a king’s ransom to see." - Daily Mail "Ian Judge’s lavish pageant of power politics is a far better production than the play itself deserves." - Daily Express
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RSC - 1990/93
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"It is like discovering an entirely new play as Mr Judge keeps us permanently off balance by juggling the interchangeable sets of twins with the sort of showbiz wizardry only Paul Daniels could be expected to accomplish." - Daily Mail
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Prospect at The Old Vic - 1978/79
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