The Gloucestershire Echo reviewed the production on 5th May edition.  Unfortunately this did not appear on their website, so I hope I will be forgiven for providing it below.

Show Explores a Humble Life

Forget Desperate Housewives, the desperate households in Humble Boy's hilarious look at middle England are far more entertaining.

Charlotte Jones' award-winning play - which opened at the National Theatre in 2001 - has been faultlessly adapted by the Bishop's Cleeve Players for Cheltenham's Playhouse Theatre.

And it was well worth the wait to see this absolute gem about family relations, social mores and bee-keeping so close to home.

Director Brian Paterson says he chose to produce the tragi-comedy Humble Boy because he fell in love with the script and his enthusiasm for Jones' work shines through.

Starring just five actors [sic] on a picture-perfect set, this amateur production has a professional finish.

Loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play tells of how Flora Humble and her son Felix, a troubled astrophysicist, cope with Mr Humble senior's death.

With themes that would make Freud raise a wan smile and inspired plot twists, this show is charmingly unpredictable.

The cast have developed their characters and this allows the play's wonderful mix of waspish insults and poignant insights to be delivered at just the right tempo.

But it's Sue Taylor as the widowed Flora Humble who gets all the best lines, delivered with a caustic self-control that proves she is no "mummy dearest".

With excellent performances from the cast, the only caution with this production concerns the language.

The swearing isn't gratuitous but it did divide the audience and caused Phil Swinford, who plays the uncouth George Pye, to apologise in advance.

A thoroughly modern show, Humble Boy runs until Saturday.