Lazarus: The Complete Book and Lyrics

'David Bowie's parting gift to the world - and what a rare and mesmeric testament this is… it's all unforgettable. I sat rapt throughout'

'Enda Walsh's book is full of longing – for love, for peace, for release from earthly ties – while songs from Bowie's iconic catalogue, an astonishing legacy spanning four decades, are reimagined in a new context whilst somehow retaining the potency they once exerted during the course of a life richly lived. No jukebox musical, this… [the] entire creation is infused with the spirit, the quirkiness, the capriciousness of Bowie, and Walsh could not be more in tune with all of it'

'Like David Bowie himself, this is a show that defies definition. It's both all and none of a musical, a play, a gig, performance art, philosophical meditation, a fever dream, a collective trip into the unknown... strangely fascinating and fascinatingly strange'

'Beautiful... a last transmission from a dying star'

'Outstanding... full of wild energy, magical effects and overwhelming music'

'Fascinating to watch... [a] spectacular study of a pained outsider's search for peace'

'Blazingly original... complex, layered and riveting... sensational'

'Captivating, tense, and emotional… shows like this don't come along very often'

'Gripping… [a] strangely poetic piece of music theatre… there’s nothing at all conventional about this. It is festive. Riotous. Dionysian. Wonderful'

'Ice-bolts of ecstasy shoot like novas through the fabulous muddle and murk of Lazarus, the great-sounding, great-looking and mind-numbing new musical built around songs by David Bowie'

'Wild, fantastical, eye-popping. A surrealistic tour de force'