What the critics say
The Journey To Venice
“It is a poignant meditation on the joys and struggles of old age and is brilliantly interpreted by Annabel Leventon and Tim Hardy.” London Living Large
“Leventon and Hardy give exquisitely detailed performances and the couple’s plight is desperately moving” Reviews Gate
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
"I've rarely seen a kindlier, more protective Vladimir than Tim Hardy... Hardy movingly suggests the survival of spiritual grace under extreme pressure." Michael Billington, The Guardian
Dona Rosita the Spinster by Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Rebecca Morahan, dir. Auriol Smith
"You hear more than a whisper of Chekhov in the painfully accurate scene where Sheila Reid and Tim Hardy, excellent as the heroine's aunt and uncle, dwell on the slow decline of marital rage and passion into grudging silence." Michael Billington, The Guardian
Days of Cavafy by Gerald Killingworth dir. Alison Skilbeck
"There is no quibbling with Tim Hardy's subtle commanding central performance: a figure radiating harmonius modesty, who can turn very nasty indeed if anyone blunders into his sacred territory; physically bashful, intellectually unassuming, creatively self-confident on the Olympian scale." Irving Wardle, The Times
A Substitute for Life by Simon Brett dir. Alison Skilbeck
"This is magnificent, an excellent piece of theatre" Buxton Fringe Festival Reviews
"Hardy’s performance.. is absolutely spellbinding" Bouquets & Brickbats
The Trials of Galileo written & directed by Nic Young
"The superb Tim Hardy triumphs as Galileo" ***** edfringe.com
"We are in the hands of a consummate performer." ***** Fringe Review
"Hardy has complete mastery of an excellent script" ****1/2 The Public Reviews
"It is an enormous tribute to Tim Hardy's captivating skill and abilities as an actor that he keep his audience focussed for seventy minutes." **** broadwaybaby.com
"A fine and sarcastic play full of thought-provoking contradiction, it is soul-breakingly bitter as it is heart-breakingly humorous." **** Three Weeks
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - US tour, Actors from the London Stage
"it is Tim Hardy's performance as Shylock that lifts the level of this interpretation. His deep and deliberate tone during the famous 'if you prick us, do we not bleed' speech at the end of the first act was passionate and vulnerable."
Waiting for Godot
"Tim Hardy's more genteel Vladimir, who preserved a certain dapper quality in dereliction. The mutual dependency between the two was beautifully brought out" FT
The Magic Flute by WA Mozart dir. Nicholas Broadhurst
"..but it is Tim Hardy's Sarastro in his smart suit and tie that will linger in the memory" The Scotsman
Cinderella by Rossini
"Jan Hartley Morris's Cinders stands out as does Tim Hardy's magnificent performance as her father" Evening Argus
Days of Cavafy by Gerald Killingworth dir. Alison Skilbeck
"Tim Hardy's interpretation does justice to the quality of the writing. He is fussy and pedantic, but vulnerable, moving and totally convincing in a delicate sensitive performance." Time Out
"Tim Hardy contributes a mature tour de force" The Listener
Encounter in the Wilderness by Hugh Carr
"Tim Hardy has the face of a Jesuit, refined and boyish, but his voice is deep and rich." Chiswick Herald
Dona Rosita the Spinster by Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Rebecca Morahan, dir. Auriol Smith
"There are superb cameos by Tim Hardy as Rosita's rose-fancying uncle." The Stage