This is a significant achievement that deserves attention.
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Somehow the evening ... dwindles into a case of “so-what?”. Oddly, it satisfies most when at its most conventional. It feels too self-involved and woolly to hit home hard.
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The play is an enjoyably slippery, enthralling piece of work, albeit with a tiresome metatheatrical framework. It’s overdone ... but it’s also gripping throughout.
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Davies and Kelly have a winning chemistry... Still, it's not quite enough to make this paranoid pair entertaining company for this play's one-hour 45-minute running time.
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The blurb describes the piece as a “slippery thriller”, yet ... [it] utterly [fails] to generate any sort of tension.
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[A] knotty interrogation of truth in fake news era. Director Lucy Morrison fills the play with unspoken menace.
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Unfortunately, this thriller is never very thrilling, the satire is never very sharp and the humour is lukewarm. At a time when many feel a real anger at the current government, this playful silliness feels like a middle-class slap in the face to anyone who really wants to change the world.
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It’s 20 minutes too long, perhaps, and towards the end the tone tips towards melodrama. But otherwise, this is undoubtedly a majorly significant piece of writing.
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