Acting Testimonials

Easy Virtue by Noel Coward - King’s Head Theatre

‘Although it’s almost unfair to do so in such a perfectly cast production (director Tim Luscombe) I’ll single out Miranda Kingsley’s clumping religious fanatic (a bit of Eleanor Bron, a touch of Penelope Keith)…’ Ros Asquith, City Limits 

‘…notably Miranda Kingsley who plays John’s hearty prig of a sister, Marion, with sublimely comic clumsiness.’ Christopher Edwards, The Spectator

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Easy Virtue by Noel Coward - Garrick Theatre

‘It is the women he has it in for. Larita’s endlessly critical mother-in-law (Zena Walker) and the two smug daughters. ‘Don’t give way, mother’, bleats the elder one, a galumphing girl - Miranda Kingsley, first-class - with a smile like the flash of light on an axe-head.’ Jeremy Kingston, The Times

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 Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde - Pitlochry Festival Theatre  

‘Miranda Kingsley is outstanding as Mrs Erlynne; with grace and style, she carefully works towards the denouement... What sets her performance apart is her keen perception of the deeper meaning of the work…’  The Courier, Scotland 

‘No performance is more assured than Miranda Kingsley’s portrayal of Mrs Erlynne.’ Allen Wright, The Scotsman

 ‘Miranda Kingsley as the “shocking” Mrs Erlynne, spouting “manners before morals” cuts a deliciously mischievous swathe through the accepted codes of moral behaviour. It’s a performance of much vigour and style…’ Richard Mowe

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‘Private Lives’ by Noel Coward – Pitlochry Festival Theatre  

‘As Amanda and Elyot, Miranda Kingsley and Mark Wynter are dazzling sparring partners locked in a fatal attraction: they cannot live together, yet they cannot live apart. The futility of their self indulgence infuses the crossfire. Ms Kingsley is a seductively malevolent sybarite with a voice sparked with barbed eloquence…’ Scotland on Sunday 

‘Mark Wynter and Miranda Kingsley are completely at home in their roles, capturing the quicksilver tempers, the billing and cooing and the bitter bickering with a stylish ease. They are imbued with the self-confidence of the fashionable society from which they come... with repartee to match. The romance is there too amidst the turbulence... also gripped by the desire to continue their love-affair, she radiates tremendous élan in a captivating performance.’ The Courier, Scotland

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Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie – Pitlochry Festival Theatre 

‘Martyn James as idiosyncratic defence counsel and Miranda Kingsley as incisive Crown prosecutor create an effective double act in the courtroom duels.’ The Courier, Scotland

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Sly Fox – (adapted from Volpone by Ben Jonson) by Larry Gelbart – Pitlochry Festival Theatre 

‘The script positively explodes with raunchy wit, the one-liners spitting out so fast that you have hardly stopped laughing at the last one when the next one hits you. Without exception, the cast rises to the occasion, with electric performances all round.’ Joy Hendry, The Scotsman

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David Copperfield by Dickens (adapted by Matthew Francis) - Sheffield Crucible Theatre 

‘It’s a rollercoaster ride of emotions; the hilarious Brian Poyser as the very mad Mr Dick.. the extremely funny Miranda Kingsley as the adorable Peggotty… the hatred towards Uriah Heep, wickedly played by Peter Hugo-Daly…’ Sheryl Crane, Gazette, Sheffield

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David Copperfield – Greenwich Theatre 

‘His ingenious, endearing dramatization of this most autobiographical of Dickens’s novels. A gallery of grotesques and eccentrics are brought to vivid comic life.’ Nicholas de Jongh – Evening Standard

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Point Valaine by Noel Coward – Minerva Studio, Chichester Festival Theatre

‘Other highlights include… Miranda Kingsley’s put-upon spinster desperately seeking iron jelloids.’  Andrew St George, Financial Times

‘…the splendidly gauche Elise of Miranda Kingsley…’ Michael Sell, The Stage 

‘There are a clutch of comic cameo parts – wicked satires nicely cultivated by the strong cast.’ Sue Snowden, Chichester Observer