"At the sight of the sunny Saharan setting installed by Dragoş Buhagiar, you may think that, this time, Afrim has directed a cheerful show. And then the pseudo-ending, which made me exclaim that Radu's happy endings erase all the previous drama, like a sponge erases a blackboard, something that has never been seen before in anything he staged (maybe a little bit, but just a little bit, in The Avalanche). I was so far off! Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, the latest show by Afrim, at the German State Theatre Timişoara, is nothing like that – it's balanced to the very end, when it made me cry heavily and want to jump from my seat and rush onto stage and hug the little girl who swam through her childhood years like Ahmal the fish. In a circle. […] these five characters brought together by the Canadian playwright Morris Panych and into which Afrim breathed life (as flickering as it may be, and filled with emptiness and feelings reflected upon rather than felt) seem isolated from any reality that they should live outside their home on the sea shore, but they are so well-anchored in their own lives, like in a fishing trawl, that one starts to think that any possible change would unbalance and destroy them. A mere illusion."

Cătălina Miciu, in: Ginger Group

"Although tears may flow, this show of perfect beauty, like that of a fine porcelain doll, makes one believe that the goldfish actually does exist sometimes. And since it grants us three wishes, here we go: 1. It would be nice if the future UNITER jury nominated Silvia Török for the Debut Award. She is so good in the little girl's part that, when they walked out of the hall, people wondered how old that child really was and how could she have memorized all those lines. In real life, she is a true actress, a fresh graduate from Cluj, where she studied under one of the best professors in the Romanian vocational education system, Miklos Bacs. 2. We would like that all actors in all theatres be as good as these Germans from Timişoara. And 3. Actually, you know what? We don't even need to make a third wish. The theatre goldfish is always with us and he answers by the name of Radu Afrim."

Gabriela Lupu, in: România Liberă

"I don't know why or because of whom, but those performing here (especially Silvia Török, incredible and disturbing as the little girl Iris, Alex Halka, Olga Török, Horia Săvescu and Rareş Hontzu) are not known/rewarded/applauded as much as they should be in the Romanian theatre. They possess great talent, absolutely great, doubled by an obvious stage discipline, down to the finest details in the composition. This is something worth framing, my dear readers."

Florian-Rareş Tileagă, in: LiterNet.ro