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"Jessica Hynes is a superb Annie, both in frumpy everyday clothes and when unbundling herself into a flowery dress. The patience demanded by her mother, and waiting for Tom to pop the appropriate question (it’s must be like waiting for Godot) mixes with a sense of life passing." -
Timothy Ramsden

From ReviewsGate.com - 07/10/2008

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"A warm and glowing Jessica Hynes wrenches the heart as the youngest sibling, Annie, nursing a sick mother, and waiting in vain for the local vet, played with poignantly tongue-tied awkwardness by Ben Miles, to propose to her." -
Charles Spencer

From The Telegraph - 06/10/2008

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"But a later scene in which Jessica Hynes' superbly unhappy Annie smashes dining-room plates as Ben Miles's dithering Tom fails yet again to articulate his feelings for her is sad enough to evoke Lopakhin's final encounter with Varya in The Cherry Orchard. And the same contradictory emotions are apparent in Living Together." - Michael Billington

From The Guardian - 07/10/2008

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"There’s lovely work from Hynes as the dishevelled Annie, left by her siblings to care for their bedbound mother." - Fiona Mountford

From This is London - 07/10/2008

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"Jessica Hynes gives Annie the look of a woman for whom hope is evaporating before her very eyes, occasionally lashing out against it, but mostly looking on unable to bring an end to it." - MA

From The Official London Theatre Guide - 07/10/2008

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"Yes, compared to the other terminally dull men, he's the spirit of romantic anarchy, but Jessica Hynes's superb Annie deserves somebody better than weekend Tristan." Paul Taylor

From The Independent - 08/10/2008

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"But the raw pain of the comedy is beautifully evident: the scenes between lonely Annie (Jessica Hynes, pictured) and tongue-tied Tom (Ben Miles) achieve almost Chekhovian poignancy." Sarah Hemming

From FT.com - 07/10/2008

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"Dusting off this Seventies trilogy of drunken, adulterous shenanigans – with a superb cast – is a stroke of genius"

"He appears to have fallen truly in love with Jessica Hynes’ frazzled singleton, Annie. But the more seduction scenes you see, the more uncertain you become. Is his romantic tenderness just an act, and how much tragic damage will he eventually cause?" Kate Bassett

From The Independent On Sunday - 12/10/2008

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"The sitcom stars of Ayckbourn’s trilogy conquer all, leaving Pinter looking pallid"

"He’s married to the hard-faced workaholic Ruth (Amelia Bullmore), but it’s his wife’s sister, Annie, who is the primary object of his seductive self-pity. Annie is unmarried, so her destiny is to care for Mother upstairs. Played by Jessica Hynes, co-creator of the wonderful television comedy Spaced, she’s a picture of self- neglect and sexual frustration. We never meet Mother, but you soon have a vivid image of her as some kind of Minotaur or Medusa up in the attic, a voracious man-eater in her time, and now eating away the life of her daughter." Christopher Hart

From The Sunday Times - 12/10/2008

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"Jessica Hynes portrays beautifully the unhappy and weary Annie - drabbily dressed and slightly depressed - who dithers over whether to spend a dirty weekend with Norman in East Grinstead offering her a well-earned break from looking after her demanding bedridden mother. He seemed to be on a winner but in the end Annie thinks better of it and sees through the falseness of his advances and pulls the plug on him. But there's still a bit left!" Tony Cooper

From EDP24.co.uk - 12/10/2008

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Other reviews -

Variety.com - 07/10/2008

Whatsonstage.com - 07/10/2008

The Stage - 07/10/2008

The Times - 07/10/2008

The Observer - 12/10/2008