"Absorbing theatre ... There is a sense at the end, of that complete experience on which theatre still holds the copywright."
Gerry Colgan, Irish Times
 
"The tightly worked script loses little of the novel's impact. Director Liam Halligan deserves immense credit for his imaginative stage direction."
Charles Hogan, Sunday Business Post

"An ingenious use of direct speech ... matches David Edgar's celebrated version of Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company of some years back"
Thomas Kilroy (Playwright)