The Times gave it five stars and said that it was "A superb production and a new (newish) company possessing the skills, intelligence and dedication to create such a wonder".

[4] In 2011 the company adapted William Hogarth's engravings The Four Stages of Cruelty in collaboration with the playwright Adam Brace.

[8][9][10] In a review of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for The Evening Standard, critic Fiona Montford wrote that "What Simple8 are most decidedly not doing is slavishly recreating the work onstage but rather spinning an increasingly Kafka-esque yarn that has a low-fi yet chilled atmosphere...The eight-strong cast throw themselves into writer/director Sebastian Armesto and Dudley Hinton's surreally-tinged nightmare with gusto, doubling roles, playing instruments and at one cherishable moment forming themselves into the inner mechanisms of a large municipal clock.

[14][15] Produced by Strawberry Vale, Simple8's The Living Unknown Soldier was the first show at the Arcola Theatre in London to be powered by the venue's hydrogen fuel cell.

[17] In 2013 Simple8 won the Off West End Theatre Ensemble Award for their productions of Moby Dick and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.