In West's portrait of a soured relationship . . . telling details build only incrementally; by the end, however, the audience has formed a troubling vision of a marriage marred by human weakness and gut-wrenc[h]ing tragedy.

Daragh Reddin, Metro Herald

Conservatory is a marvellous play, absorbing, intense and elegant... as a meditation on the disintegration of marriage into a hell of weary familiarity... it paints an exquisitely aware canvas of human frailty and unfulfilled need.

Emer O'Kelly, Irish Independent

West's writing is remarkable for its restraint. There is no showboating, just a consistent employment of language as neat and cutting as a surgical implement.

Alan O'Riordan, Irish Examiner