"'The Snail House' is written and directed with unimpeachable skill, the action is so well paced, and the tone so carefully curated that it occasionally appears exciting in spite of a wearying lack of tension and some heavy-handed exposition."
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"So, the script needs edits, and the scenario surely demands more characters."
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"If there’s a central point, it’s that we’d all benefit from more empathy and less acrimonious certainty. "
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"The director turned playwright Richard Eyre’s family drama touches on medical ethics, climate change, coronavirus, social class and Brexit, to name a few, but the well-crafted words can’t mask the vacuum at the centre."
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"The script takes on too much without giving us enough, leaving this feeling like a play uncertain of its focus."
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"There’s a weirdness at the heart of this play. While it presents that age-old dramatic trope of a clash of values, it often feels like it keeps them at arms-length."
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"'The Snail House' sometimes seems to move at a snail’s pace. Dramatically flat and struggling to cohere around a central theme."
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"While this play bares its teeth at a whole range of issues, ultimately it fails to bite."
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