"An astonishingly brilliant production...One of the best debut plays I have ever seen." Saturday Review, BBC Radio Four
"Excellent production...fantastic cast...nuanced, sensitive and funny." Evening Standard
"Unerring." The Sunday Times
"A cracking debut with a superb cast. One of the best short plays on right now." WhatsOnStage
"Moving and absorbing and consummately performed." The Stage
"Every year, the Papatango New Writing Prize comes up with a bit of a cracker." The Guardian
"An outstanding performance of a memorable and moving look at nature and nurture and what family really means." The Times Critic's Choice
"A great subject for a play - an emotional tug-of-war." The Observer
"A play of muted joy and ache that penetrates to the bone. A stealthy little heartbreaker." The Times
"Brimming with quiet insight and sympathetic humour." The Independent
"Makes a big impression." Evening Standard
"Powered by two captivating performances, a tender, lovely piece of theatre." Time Out
"Funny, adorable, elegiac, brimming with gentle humour and bursting with heart." The Stage
"Seduces us with myth and theatrical magic." Time Out
"Richly atmospheric and very well-acted." The Guardian
"Exemplary." The Morning Star
"A simmering tension mounts [in] Sumbwanyambe's notable debut play, presented by those remarkable unearthers of new talent, Papatango." Evening Standard
"A debut of astonishing maturity...a rare discovery." The Times
"A beautiful production of a promising debut." The Stage
"Terrific, bickering, bustling with energy and drop-dead humour." The Independent
"Funny, touching...remarkable." The Telegraph
"Both hugger mugger and delicate, Nina Raine's production amplifies her brother's exceptional talent." The Observer
"Keenly observed, quirky, funny writing is brought to vivid life by a superb cast...compelling." The Mail on Sunday
"A superb cast...charming." Evening Standard
"An eloquent, heartfelt production [with] too many gorgeous performances to list."Time Out Critics' Choice
"Fascinating." WhatsOnStage
"Sharp, savvy and beguiling...a writer of huge promise." The Times
"A blessedly unsensational play on a deeply serious subject." The Guardian
"An amazing debut to a writing career." WhatsOnStage
"Audacious, amusing and verbally dazzling...the most verbally arresting play on the London stage." The Telegraph
"Like Pinter but without the pauses...a bravura performance, remarkably expressed." The Times
"Flawless...one of the rawest and most confronting plays currently showing on the West End. A must-see." The Australian Times
"Louise Monaghan's play knocks spots off much of the new writing I have seen." The Guardian
“New writing talent alongside a stellar cast…This fantastic production will hopefully ensure Monaghan a future place on the London stage.” WhatsOnStage
“Essential viewing.” The Telegraph
“An electrifying, visceral experience.” Time Out Critics’ Choice
“Genuinely enlightening…a play of extraordinary power.” The Independent
“Electric staging, eloquent, harrowing testimony...builds to an urgent, confrontational climax.” Metro