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“Donnelly is the endearing figure, delight, amazement and playfulness apparent in her fine physical and facial work.”
- NOW Magazine

“Helen Donnelly… is bold, experimental and on her way to the top.”
- The Toronto Star

"Foo is the most narcissistic, reckless, careening, primal personality ever to crash the civilized sanctuary of my CBC Radio studio. We bonded,and Gold Bond had nothing to do with it."
- CBC Radio, Here And Now

“She’s a clown more in the mould of a mad poet, with a dash of Zen...a sprinkle of Jungian archetypes and a seltzer spray of theatre of the absurd.”
- The Hamilton Spectator

“With Donnelly, we're in the hands of a rubber-limbed and -faced clown who knows her stuff – how long to milk a moment, how to touch her viewers' feelings and how to play off that audience, even build on its laughs.”
- NOW Magazine

“Posey’s Wig, a clown gibberish musical, is written, produced and performed by Helen Donnelly. Set backstage and onstage at the Tubegosh Opera House in 1906, Posey’s Wig is a tour-de-force of physical comedy on the part of Donnelly, supported by her opera quality voice, as she shares her feelings with the audience. Slipping between the characters of the operetta star, Miss Posey and her repressed maid, Mildred, babbling and singing in her unique gibberish, Donnelly was the highlight of the festival.”
- View Magazine

“Saw the final performance of Helen Donnelly’s Posey’s Wig, a show we reviewed… in 2005. It’s wonderful to see how this Cinderella tale of a mistreated maid who gets revenge on her nasty opera singer employer has blossomed. Billed as a clown gibberish musical, it’s richer visually…But it’s Donnelly who really shines, with sharper satire, brighter characters and a delightfully wicked way of handling disruptive latecomers….And on top of her comic skills, Donnelly has a great singing voice.”
- NOW Magazine