Grounded in tenderness and humour, their show may be rough around the edges but has an exceptionally warm centre. Go out of your way to see it.
Donald Hutera, The Times May 2010

At times their closeness is almost unbearable. "What will you miss about me when I'm gone? Susan asks. Most of all, dancing with you, " says Darren
Luke Jennings, The Observer, May 2010 

Susan & Darren feels wonderfully fresh and unscripted: they just talk to us, even when they're acknowledging how theatrical this is.
Zoe Anderson, The Independent May 2010

It's intimate, life-affirming, utterly magical and unmissable.
*****Noeleen Dowling, Irish Times 17 Nov 08

There's a moment when Susan looks at Darren and your heart squeezes at the raw honesty of it.
**** Mary Brennan, The Herald 19 Oct 2007

It is not often, at the end of a show, that you long to rush up and hug the performers, but I had to resist the urge after this piece produced by Company Fierce and Quarantine.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian review 13 Nov 2006

...we've never seen one of these fragile, beautiful performances that wasn't an outright winner.
Guardian Guide preview 6 May 2006

'DARREN' is Darren Pritchard, a 25-year-old dancer and choreographer. Susan is his mum, a 50-year-old cleaner, who has never been on a stage in her life before.
Kevin Bourke, Manchester Evening News review 12 May 2006

Quarantine's latest piece, Susan & Darren, makes for cosy reading in this year's queerupnorth brochure ('dancing, conversation and a lovely buffet'), but don't be fooled...
Metro preview 9 May 2006