" 'The Interview' makes some interesting points on the morality of journalism but struggles to answer the very questions it asks."
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“This crisp, questioning and perhaps too light drama argues that it was much more than that by interrogating journalistic practice and drawing (not entirely convincing) associations with today’s fake news.”
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" 'The Interview’s' main contribution to our knowledge is a scene in which an BBC editor cuts some of Diana’s sharper opinions about royals such as the Queen Mother – and these cutting-room-floor details have a powerful charge."
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“The Interview’ draws poignant parallels to our fractured present, probing at our comforts as much as our disillusions with the media’s honesty.”
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"The production is ponderously directed... Those with a stronger emotional connection to the subject matter might give The Interview an extra star, but I’d challenge them to give a compelling reason why. Nice wig – shame about the play."
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“Obviously drama and journalism have different moral codes. But even as an absolutist republican I felt uncomfortable with Maitland exploiting the dead Diana to criticise her own son, and to spout glib, pseudo-profound points.”
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"It takes its subject seriously and tries to move beyond the black-and-white media takes. But in trying to make a good point it often forgets to be a good play. "
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“With the audience seated on all four sides of the bare stage, Michael Fentiman’s production evokes the goldfish bowl ambience that turned so many members of the magic circle into spies and informers.”
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