"If the scenes with soldiers and the ball, as well as the court, feel a bit underpopulated, with cartoonish acting, the intimate exchanges work really well. Despite its problems, a beautifully provocative and engaging show."
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"The gear changes from broad comedy to debate and finally polemic might be a bit clunky, and the references to Descartes and Locke rather peremptory, but Thomas is a talented writer..."
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"The whole thing is too gimmicky and too self-conscious in its juxtaposition of different eras to really work."
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“There's something so lovable about this play and its quest to find a golden thread of joy in a dark, tattered old story.”
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“We’re passing through a phase where dramatists addressing the question of gender identity seem to place uplift above all else. This is not a healthy trend. Fist-clenching activists may be happy enough; the rest of us are left starved of subtlety and insight.”
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"Thomas has done a valuable thing in bringing this terribly sad story into the light, but her play tells us less about who these two extraordinary people were and how they lived, and more about how we choose to think of gender in the present day."
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“It’s a sprawling tragi-comic love story that explores contemporary issues around sex, gender and the violent oppression of people whose lives do not conform to narrow societal expectations.”
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"It's a great piece of storytelling: profoundly moving and wildly funny, delicate yet tough, it's part of a real human journey that is still going on. A triumph."
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