One of the greatest Irish plays of the century (Irish Times)

The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy’s gift - here and in his other plays - is at once to stimulate and destabilise. It’s a thrilling and intense experience to sit in a theatre and hardly to know where you are or that anything exists beyond the stage in front of you…This is a dark, funny, consuming evening of high points, breaking points, hangovers and hints - uncertain hints - of hope (Observer)