"Owen and O’Riordan deliver a production you can’t tear your eyes from, as much as you want to at times."
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"It’s a decent play, but too often it feels like an exercise in trying to transpose the original to the present, and certainly it lacks the burning conviction"
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"It’s funny, shocking, truthful and ultimately supremely moving."
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"It stumbles slightly towards the end but remains a wrenching, scorching piece of theatre. Did I mention it’s also horribly funny?"
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"As the elements of melodrama spin out of control, Deka Walmsley adds much-needed ballast as Reggie’s adoptive father, the gruff artisan Jacob. A frustrating evening, all in all."
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"Overwhelming might be the mot juste for a production that burns slowly at first but builds into an emotional conflagration that leaves you in mind of Philip Larkin’s infamous verdict on your mum and dad."
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"O’Riordan’s taut staging teases out the uncomfortable humour embedded in every scene, drawing shocked laughter and squeals of discomfort from the audience."
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" Scott Howells’s wild, ultimately deeply moving performance just about holds this production together, and in its comic daring brings a spirit of subversion that feels very Ibsenite."
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