http://www.stagereviews.co.uk/northampton.html
"...Director Lucy Bailey has assembled a formidable team around her – including trusty designer William Dudley, composer Nell Catchpole and stars Tara Fitzgerald and Jonathan Firth – to create an evening of memorable impact and considerable drama....
...The psychological tussles between Fitzgerald and Firth, too, are emphatically a success. It’s easy to see how Hamilton’s dialogue, written in the 1930s, could sound stilted and strange to modern ears, but the pair both find meaning and sense in their repeated phrases and awkwardly-constructed sentences, adding a layer of additional complexity to the already tangled relationship between them....
...Without giving away crucial plot twists, Fitzgerald evokes Bella Manningham’s descent into madness with acuity and painful realism, while Firth, as her husband Jack, lurches persuasively from charm personified to terrifying intimidation at a moment’s notice. Their devastating interactions lie at the heart of this powerful production, and Bailey quite rightly gives them full throttle...."
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