"It's an immense task to revolutionise a play whose meanings and morals are so embedded into its tradition. This production has the right ideas, but too many concepts are at stake."
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"I’ve long seen this play treated as a referendum on the making of a warrior-king but Roughan re-casts a potential study in jingoism as a chilling anatomy of one man’s slide into savagery."
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"It’s performed on a stage bare apart from a few chairs, with a largely young cast in everyday clothes playing multiple roles. And it’s intense. ... It’s a typically bold ending to a fresh and vivid interpretation."
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"There are no heroes on this battlefield, only humans fighting for survival. With other members of the cast doubling roles, Henry seems a more dominant figure than ever."
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"This is a fast, slick, spare production that rarely skimps on detail as it digs deep beneath the play’s presentations of power, nationhood and, yes, pesky testosterone."
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"This is a coruscating production about the desperate grasp for power, and how it does no man or country any good."
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"At times it feels the text has been overly contorted to the vision, there is no doubting its power. Never before have I found the play so discomfiting."
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"It is clearly an intelligent and admirable exercise, and although it leaves it until very late to expose the emotional consequences of exploitative power, when it does so it has real impact."
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