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Reviews (London)

“The acting always felt like so much posturing until Phillip Breen’s thrillingly performed production. I had never really witnessed the play’s text and subtext, metaphor and staged reality firing on all cylinders together” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“Sam Shepard himself has rightly praised Phillip Breen’s brilliant production of this seminal 1980 play” Serena Davies, Daily Telegraph
“Phillip Breen's blistering production” Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
“Breen delivers spectacular devastation and a giddily unhinged climax, the air full of fury and acrid smoke” Sam Marlowe, The Times
“The Tricycle has done London theatre a great service in importing this brilliant and lacerating revival of Sam Shepard’s signature play, intact from the Glasgow Citizens where it was seen at the end of last year” Michael Coveney, What’s On Stage
“Director Phillip Breen emphasises Pinteresque pauses and notes of sheer menace as these siblings face each other off in a battle for possession and control” Mark Shenton, The Stage