“Playwright Emilie Collyer's Dream Home is a funny, yet profoundly sad, new work. In some ways it feels like a spiritual inheritor to Patrick White's The Season at Sarsaparilla, sharply rendering contemporary anxieties; holding misanthropy and compassion in equipoise as it skewers, and finds unexpected poignancy in, our futile attempts to keep the Great Australian Emptiness at bay.” – Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald

“Each of these stories could be separate and yet it is the community they create – a community made up entirely of mismatched pieces of humanity – that creates the bizarre and intoxicating atmosphere of danger, regret and sex, cloaked in the smell of cooking meat.” – Fleur Kilpatrick, School for Birds.

“A theatrical experience defined by daring and innovation.” – Patricia Di Risio, Stage Whispers

"Lulls us with David Williamson-esque cues for suburban life, backyards and BBQs, but then breaks out into something more surreal." – Thomas Jones, Crikey

“Explores the Australian dream-nightmare with compassion and humour.” – Christine Young, Theatre Press

“Balancing brutal honesty with quick humour, this piece will make you squirm in your seat with both laughter and empathetic awkwardness.” – Katherine L Scott, Popculture-y

“The one play I regret not writing about this year was Dream Home, Melbourne playwright Emilie Collyer's surreal, bitterly funny skewering of the Great Australian Dream of home ownership. Subsequent productions may find this near-faultless indie première a hard act to follow.” – Ben Brooker, ABR Year in Review

“The ideas explored are very much of the zeitgeist but in this play they are invigorated through sharp humour, formal ambition and linguistic flare. This play stood out in the competition as a genuinely theatrical endeavour.” – Patrick White, Award Judge's Report