"The hardworking six actors play dual roles as both officers and convicts, in a careful layering that conveys Chia's ambitious onion of a script which unpeels multiple meanings with each scene change."
— Ong Sor Fern, The Straits Times
“《第一舰队》的剧情引入入胜，角色鲜明生动，演员爆发力强，设计充满惊喜，是九年剧场至今最震撼最感人的作品。”
— 柯思仁博士
"Playing on Nine Years Theatre's strongest asset, the ensemble work displayed in the First Fleet is brilliant (...) There is genuine emotion in each of their voices as they recount each history, often a quiet sadness that laces each one we cannot help but sympathise with."
— Cheryl Tan, Popspoken
