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Time Out - 2012 Preview: One To Watch - Theatre
"A talent who is here to stay" ..."strong West End instincts" ..."McIntyre describes her career directing as 'an addiction not a decision'."

Variety - Directors revived UK stage in 2011 (David Benedict, 30 Dec 2011)
"'Accolade' was given a revelatory revival by new kid on the block Blanche McIntyre... McIntyre was the discovery of the year. Still in her 20s, she combines dynamic visual strength with acute sensitivity to actors and textual detail and flow."

Time Out - Best of of 2011: Theatre
"'Accolade' could go toe to toe with anything revived on the West End, and announced the arrival of brilliant young director Blanche McIntyre, who also helmed Dawn King’s riveting new writing contender 'Foxfinder'."

REVIEWS

REPENTANCE / BEHIND THE LINES
"Superbly directed by Blanche McIntyre" (Telegraph)

"Staged, with enormous flair, by Blanche McIntyre... it is McIntyre's production that gives the play visual impetus" (Guardian)

"The atmosphere is intimate, and director Blanche McIntyre, a rising star, makes ingenious use of the constrained space" (Evening Standard)

"Innovatively staged" (Whatsonstage)

"The double bill, intelligently blended by Blanche McIntyre's direction, has a polished rawness to it" (Official London Theatre)

FOXFINDER
"The piece is realised with absolute imaginative authority in Blanche McIntyre's tense, darkly atmospheric production" (Independent ****)

"Exceptionally directed... a superlative achievement from all involved.  [The script is] evocatively realised by director Blanche McIntyre... Simply put, this show is little short of flawless... one can only hope that future directors have the same tact.  A truly terrific production, and an absolute must-see" (Whatsonstage *****)

"Director Blanche McIntyre follows last year’s dazzling Finborough revival of Accolade with another first-rate production.  She keeps the staging stark and simple, and makes chilling use of prolonged silences" (Guardian ****)

"Blanche McIntyre's sparse, bleak production never lets the tension drop" (Telegraph ****)

"Blanche McIntyre’s production is grippingly atmospheric, dark and tense and confident enough to revel in the sort of stillness and silence that ratchet up the tension" (Evening Standard ****)

"Blanche McIntyre's fabulous production... this is a bold and often brilliant stab at something new" (Times)

"McIntyre’s atmospheric production... Rich, rare and deeply unsettling" (Time Out **** Critics’ Choice)

"Blanche McIntyre's riveting, stripped-down production... McIntyre has an impressive command of visuals as well as text and actors, harnessing the length of the stage to build a mood of paranoia with characters looming out of darkness" (Variety)

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER?
"Blanche McIntyre’s direction is crisp and impressively assured" (The Spectator)

"Director Blanche McIntyre has teased the very best from her young cast, and gives the play the unfussy, faithful revival it richly deserves" (Whatsonstage)

"...this strong revival by Blanche McIntyre... Maybe these are just the gap-year blues, but you've never heard them sung like this" (The Times)

"Under Blanche McIntyre's direction [Melling's] voice, movements and facial expressions are all spot on, casting a dark shade on his accomplished fellow cast members" (The Stage)

"Director Blanche McIntyre treats this like the period piece it is... McIntyre has found an actor up to the task of playing the self-pitying and dangerously manipulative Ian" (The Guardian)

ACCOLADE
"Blanche McIntyre's suspense-filled, utterly authentic exhumation ...Upcoming director McIntyre is alive to the play's every emotional nuance ...McIntyre's first-rate production ensures that its dilemmas reain timeless and gripping" ...James Cotterill's set "gives the actors and the play's world true solidity while subtly underlining the notion of prying eyes looking in" (David Benedict - Variety).

"McIntyre's superbly acted production captures precisely the feel of a period of double-lives and double-standards" (Michael Billington - Guardian ****).

"A forgotten gem... Accolade is humorous, humane and subtle in its suspenseful twists, and McIntyre's up-close staging enthralls.  A talented young director and an exceptional fringe revival (Kate Bassett - Independent on Sunday)

"What a fascinating piece of theatrical archaeology this is ...McIntyre's elegant production ...James Cotterill's clever design ...Highly recommended" (Evening Standard ****).

"With Emlyn Williams' 1950 drama we are well into revelation... Blanche McIntyre's production matches the play in quality and approach... With a fraction of the budget and playing space, this is the production last year's National Theatre revival of Rattigan's After The Dance wanted to be - and perhaps the play it wanted to be as well" (Ian Shuttleworth - Financial Times *****).

"At an early date, Accolade already classifies as one of the definng rediscoveries of this theatrical year... Blanche McIntyre's career-making production... The praise afforded Accolade, one senses, has only just begun" (Matt Wolf - New York Times).

"Director Blanche McIntyre unearths a potent broadside directed at English prurience and hypocrisy... Witty and sad, tense but chary of melodrama, Accolade is an elegantly understated piece with a palpable fury in its depths... blessed with just about the finest cast I've ever seen in a fringe show" (Andrzej Lukowski - Time Out **** Show of the Week).

(Whatsonstage ****)

"a really worthy revival" (London Theatre Guide).

OTHER PRODUCTIONS
"Richard Keightley makes a terrifically tormented Faustus, who looks as if he hasn't eaten or slept for months... Keightley charts Faustus' descent with impressive clarity and intensity" (Time Out on DOCTOR FAUSTUS)

"Blanche McIntyre is surely right when she invokes the Carry On movies in the programme... imagine Sid James hiding under Barbara Windsor's petticoat from a jealous husband, and misconducting himself thereunder - and you've one of several moments where Gay seems to be 250 years ahead of himself" (Benedict Nightingale in The Times on THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE)

"A much younger company here does wonders on a shoestring to rock the tiny Union Theatre with laughter... By the time two suitors to the wife arrive disguised in a mummy's tomb and as a stuffed alligator respectively, the show spirals into outright farce - and I was lost in giggles of sheer delight" (The Stage on THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE)

"Michael Glenny's new translation and Blanche McIntyre's production never let us forget that what we are watching is a form of political masquerade... McIntyre's production conveys admirably Bulgakov's mix of satire and seriousness" (Michael Billington in The Guardian on MOLIÈRE)

"The joy of Blanche McIntyre's richly inhabited production is how well it plays out as theatre today. Bulgakov's 1929 play is full of wonderful theatrical surprises and... McIntyre's cast of ten ably bring its rich canvas of characters into close-up focus'" (Mark Shelton in The Stage on MOLIÈRE)