The capable actors are directed, it seems, to extremes of caricature and over-acting...the year's most disappointing show so far.
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Siobhan Redmond is impressive as a tyrannical mother trying to rescue her debt-ridden family in Tinuke Craig’s strangely rootless production
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Siobhan Redmond shines in this disgracefully funny adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 1910 play...The whole evening yammers with talent.
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This is the kind of theatre that people who hate theatre describe when justifying their hatred of theatre.
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Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival.
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A rare misfire from north london's creative powerhouse.
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Bartlett’s adaptation is very, very funny, and its nihilist jokes are underscored by Craig’s uproarious staging.
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You have a sense of everyone working very hard to make something fly. Vassa remains resolutely earthbound, not quite funny enough or black enough to make its mark.
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