An uncommonly talented playwright - Brilliant and testing.

Time Out

I was reminded of both Tom Stoppard and George Bernard Shaw, partly in the interplay between character and ideas but also in the demands Betts makes on his audience, in the intellectual rigour of the writing and his ability to look afresh at at hackneyed topics...the stunned silence as the lights went down at the end and the seemingly interminable pause before the enthusiastic applause broke out say it all.

British Theatre Guide

He is just about the most extraordinary writer of drama we have...a boldly visionary poet...a political Beckett. A flamingly original writer we ignore at our peril.

Liz Lochhead, National Poet of Scotland

An uncommonly talented playwright... Brilliant and testing.

Time Out