“Cricket and the works of Pinter and Beckett enjoy an outsize influence on the cultural life of the nation compared to their popularity, but their enduring collective presence speaks to tapping into a certain element in the psyche, a place that is definitely there, but never quite visible. You’ll find it – all you need to do is wait.”
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“Director Guy Unsworth energises the script’s intentionally languid scenes, ensuring his performers wring laughs from even the driest lines as each of the play’s pensive passages gradually accelerates towards a high point of farcical silliness before an abrupt blackout resets the action.”
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