"Tonally, Ayckbourn’s play is challenging, switching from rich comedy to nightmarish sequences, yet director Michael Longhurst cleverly balances the play’s surreal and real qualities — and his production is certainly one that sticks in the mind."
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“Gradually, the play morphs into a much darker portrait of a collapsing mind. It’s done with Ayckbourn’s typical fluency, but concept overwhelms character: everyone, including Susan, is thinly drawn.”
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"It is a play worth reviving too at a time when the real world looks so bleak."
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“There is something melancholic and Chekhovian at its core, but it’s deep, deep beneath the surface, obscured by an all consuming conceptual glamour.”
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“It’s a lovely, naturalistic performance, but it exposes the artificiality of the play.”
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“Taken as an exploration of mental illness, this play’s blunt, larky approach feels both dated and faintly tasteless.”
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"In this evocation of a suburban housewife coming unglued, it’s the writing, above all, that careens out of control.”
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“Longhurst’s revival is correspondingly both a Middle England sitcom and a psychedelic fever dream.”
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