“French’s play – which I want to emphasize here, is also downright hilarious – is set in the lead-up to the opening night of a new play called The Care and Treatment of Roses. light-hearted, but honest examination of Canada’s cultural cringe … it’s one of the most fun nights you’ll ever have at Soulpepper.”
– Globe & Mail (2016)

“After the opening of ‘The Care and Treatment of Roses,’ a review is read aloud to the company and it is a dead-on spoof of an attitudinizing critic. He calls the play ‘a seamless fabric of passion and redeemed hope.’ The author wonders why the critic hedged at all. Why didn’t he come right out and say the play was perfect? With that review in mind, I will hedge a little. Jitters is an almost perfect comedy of its kind.”
—New York Times

“David French’s hilarious backstage drama Jitters is a comedic masterpiece… the laughter builds and builds to a rippling series of rib-aching crescendos.”
—Toronto Star (2010)

“Jitters is the happiest case of stage fright I have ever encountered.”
—New York Post

“Jitters is witty, affectionate, bitchy, bitterly touching. French handles a complicated idea with great sophistication.”
—Toronto Star