THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wildly funny, wildly creative! A tightly scripted, technically impressive hour of inspired anarchy.
Inspired anarchy by this pair of cartoon characters sprung to life!…psychic twins, joined in an irresistible conspiracy to commit comedy! …silly behavior of the highest caliber! Up to the minute tomfoolery in the new vaudeville tradition of thinking man’s clowns. Like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd on the set of Terminator 3!”

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A resounding success! This unique theatrical experience will have you howling with delight! It can only be described as a Nintendo game or “Ren and Stimpy” cartoon come to life. These guys possess an uncanny knack for creating every sound effect imaginable. Their skills are vast. It’s easy to see why they already have taken London, Hong Kong and Singapore by storm. This is mindless entertainment of the first magnitude!

TIME OUT NEW YORK
Twisted, marvelously peculiar and absolutely hilarious! An uproarious fiesta of carefully choreographed mayhem. A carnival of outlandish fun! A hell of a good time!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, USA
“THWAK is an ingeniously hyperactive mime-with sound-effects comedy…a muppets-by-way-of-Tarantino skit.”

SUNDAY TIMES, LONDON
Unrelenting fun!

THE OBSERVER, LONDON
Dazzlingly accurate, scorchingly physical and screamingly funny

NEWSDAY, NEW YORK
Impeccable deadpan skill!…a surreal philosophical take on new age “visual comedy”!

THE AUSTRALIAN
an exquisitely crafted 1 1/2 hours of physical humour and sheer imaginative brilliance. Their loosely related series of physical sketches creates an endearing, child-like world where physical laws mean nothing and into which the audience is taken on a wildly tangential journey. Perhaps their most endearing feature, though, is a tongue-in-cheek attitude which takes none of their formidable skills to seriously”.

THE HERALD, SCOTLAND
It’s like being sucked into a blockbuster movie starring Bruce Willis, Bruce Lee and Bluto - all of it miraculously created on stage by two skinny blokes in red singlets. I clapped till my hands exploded in a cascade of blood and bone-shards. Almost. See the Umbilicals and learn that an imaginatively propelled human body has no limits”.

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
The Brothers’ inventiveness with space was a joy. Through simple but disciplined tricks they were able to buck the normal limitations of the stage to achieve sudden new angles and perspectives.They were also able, through playful, natural patter, to project a warmth between them that gave contrast to their cartoon creations. The Umbilical Brothers who have taken playing around in the backyard to a high level of disciplined physical comedy.