London Theatre Award Nomination Mark Leipacher: '.. one of the many virtues of this exciting production [Mary Stuart at the New Diorama] is that it gives us an intimate, stripped down and mercifully unrhetorical version of Schiller's great 1800 romantic tragedy... Instead of giving us a battle for supremacy between two star performers, Leipacher has come up with an ensemble production that reminds us that Schiller looks back to Shakespeare and forward to John le Carré.'

The Guardian on Mary Stuart: “.. one of the many virtues of this exciting production is that it gives us an intimate, stripped‑down and mercifully unrhetorical version of Schiller's great 1800 romantic tragedy... Instead of giving us a battle for supremacy between two star performers, Leipacher has come up with an ensemble production that reminds us that Schiller looks back to Shakespeare and forward to John le Carré”

The Stage: “Faction have again turned the New Diorama’s empty stage into the ultimate blank canvas and watching what they project onto it is always a delight.”

Mark Leipacher has received a round of rather prestigious thumbs up in his latest directorial efforts for the Faction Theatre Company. Having founded the company himself, he has garnered success after success as Artistic Director, Director and Writer. Only a couple of months ago, the Company and the New Diorama picked up a Peter Brook Award for Equity Best Ensemble. Notably, The Faction is returning to the old traditions of repertory theatre, something every actor is bound to heave a sigh of relief over.  Mark himself read Drama at Manchester, then moved on to drama school at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In addition to his stellar work for the Faction, he has acted as Associate Director at the Old Vic, and published a book on the working relationship between Sam Mendes and Simon Russell-Beale entitled, Catching The Light.