Woolf's story has been reinvented by choreographer Ben Duke and writer Lucy Kirkwood into a strikingly elegant and funny piece of dance theatre.
Klay's collection is "a brilliantly exact picture of what happens in war, and its aftermath", and Barrett "has produced a strikingly original and funny, if pungent debut work," said Sweeney.
The sheer energy of his performance is astonishing, but this is more than mere clowning; deadpan asides, inventive twists and cameo roles all contribute to a strikingly imaginative and funny show.
Mary Richards was a smart, funny, strikingly attractive woman.
In fact, she's funnier (and more strikingly beautiful, often outshining stunners like Angelina Jolie) than ever in her buzzed-about new Netflix TV series, "Grace and Frankie".
It's both extremely funny and, at times, strikingly old-fashioned — to the point that often when I read a joke, rather than laughing, I'd think, I can imagine a time when I would have laughed at this joke.
The great performances, though, come from Donald Grobe's strikingly tough Ottavio and Walter Berry's bitterly funny Leporello.
Though parts of this book are written in a strikingly cool, intellectual tone, the breast-feeding chapter is as funny as it is disturbing.
But where is that trio of strikingly different masterpieces made between 1952 and 1954 -- the heartbreakingly funny "White Sheik," the insightful memory piece "I Vitelloni" and the overwhelmingly emotional "La Strada"?
The funny thing is, if you look simply at the spending side of the ledger, the coalition has been strikingly successful: public expenditure in 2011-12 came in £5bn lower than planned.
