Press
For Mary’s Daughters
At Edinburgh Festival Fringe | August 2025
Lauren Williams for EdFringeReview
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“Once they begin, the cast's instant chemistry pervades the stage. . . . The performance itself is nothing short of poetic and is performed with such naturalism that the audience can only sit there in awe of the humanity they express.”
“Megan Carter’s performance as the prescient philosopher is angelic, expertly taking on the role of the Wollstonecraft as a writer but also a mother, exuding a quiet confidence in the maternal role. In a moment of deep despair, Carter's Wollstonecraft tiptoes downstage, as if walking Putney Bridge, and your instinct is to reach out and save her, grab her, a testament to the pure love you feel for these characters.”
Paul Levy for FringeReview
“The performances are uniformly strong. The three actors deliver fluently connected work, with a direct, no nonsense script that rarely misses a beat.”
At The Space Theatre, London | March 2024
Ryan Lenney for Curtain Call Reviews | ★ ★ ★ ★
“All three women deliver heart wrenching performances as women scorned by men in their lives or history. Carter, as Wollstonecraft, is the ideal nurturing mother and female solid authority.”
Simon Ward for The Peg | ★ ★ ★ ★
“The performances are uniformly excellent – the actors work brilliantly together as a family group, with the sisters convincingly vying for the mother’s attention. In a play that could be over-dense with ideas, the clarity and focus of delivery ensure that we remain gripped and transfixed throughout. In spite of their bickering and often bitter arguments, the three are bound together irreparably.”
For A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Whole Pack Theatre, Winter 2024-5
Huw Davies for East Midlands Theatre | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“In a dazzling debut, the all-female theatre group The Whole Pack gladden hearts amid the wintry gloom.”
“Spry and alert, Megan Carter inhabits the role of Puck brilliantly, looking on with wide-eyed amazement as her master’s plans go awry to hilarious effect.”
Angela Singer for CambsNews | “a warm-hearted show for christmas”
“This is a charming, energetic show, nicely choreographed and with some delightful singing.”
“The last lines go to Puck – a heart-rending message from all actors since time began: If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear…. Gentles do not reprehend, if you pardon, we will mend. Megan Carter said those words beautifully. I found it very moving.”
For The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
British Touring Shakespeare, London | October 2024
Susan Elkin
“Let me come clean. I have never liked Robert Louis Stephenson’s 1886 novel. That said, this British Touring Shakespeare production is as decent a crack at the old chestnut as I’ve seen anywhere.”
“Tom Thornhill as Utterson and Megan Carter as Cordelia Carew make a good fist of presenting the contrasting reality as they gradually discover and reveal the horror of Jekyll’s dual personality. They are rather good at flagging up the gently developing affection between them too.”