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★★★★ (out of five) - Belly laugh after belly laugh in this outstanding, warm-hearted comedy that confirms Crawford as one of this country’s finest up-and-coming playwrights.

London Free PressLondon, ON

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★★★★ (out of five) - The most sophisticated aspect of Crawford’s comedy examines if and how the characters will be able to move beyond their own restricted views of themselves.

Stage Door

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It is a comedy, but it’s got a lot more resonance to it, as opposed to just being for yuks. We’re looking at people and their need for connection and love and wholeness. Mark’s done a really lovely job at making it true to its comic form, and also keeping the characters flawed and human enough that the circumstances could fall out the way that they do.

Robert Metcalfe, Artistic Director, Prairie Theatre Exchange (in an interview with Winnipeg Free Press)

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This well-written, taut script is filled with clever dialogue, four interesting people, and intersecting storylines that keep the audience engaged to the end. There are also a couple of scenes that are riveting, giving this show an emotional depth few other comedies can claim.

London Free Press

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Impossible hilarity...achieved the target result of a good comedy--evoking much-needed laughter.

Ontario Travel Divas

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'The Birds and the Bees' happens to have the honour of being the Blyth Festival’s 200th production and its 125th world premiere. Crawford’s gift for finding both humour and hope in everyday life makes his play fully worthy of that honour. Catch the world premiere production while you can, but expect to see more productions of this hilarious but thoughtful comedy far and wide.

Stage Door

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The Birds and the Bees starts out as a wild and wooly sex farce but deepens to touch the heart in equal measure with the funny bone.

Reid Between the Lines

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Not to be missed! It feels like being on some kind of comedy roller coaster where every line, situation, and joke comes faster than the last.

Blyth Citizen

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The laughs come one right after another in this comedy that covers sex and then romance for the somewhat older crowd. While the characters are all a little bit crazy, Crawford has made them very recognizable. We become charmed by them and want the best for each of them. The fact that they say and do funny things is a bonus.

Entertain This

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Often funny, sometimes heartwarming, and thoroughly charming...Crawford writes some snappy jokes and finds lots of humour in the not-so-simple relationships between his characters...This may be just the type of play a lot of us need: one that reminds us that some things die and new things are born, and that it's all a lot easier to deal with if you have some laughs along the way.

CBC

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Warm-hearted and sweet, offering genuine belly laughs and moments of deeply felt emotion.

Winnipeg Free Press

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The dialogue begins as a silly and sexual chat but shifts and pulls at the heart strings through a deeper message about love and family...You will laugh heartily until your cheeks hurt!

The Buzz, PEI

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"The Birds and the Bees is satisfying on every level."

"It’s both funny and smart, eluding the traps of the predictable situation comedy."

Sudbury Star

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"The Birds & the Bees had the Arts Club audience screaming with laughter and applauding enthusiastically."

"Delivering both the conventionally comic and the exceptionally rare, it’s an ending that deserves its cheers."

Vancouver Sun