Stephens is terrific on the rituals of fear and violence

Telegraph

Simon Stephens' sharp shock of a play . . . Stephens and Joel Horwood (as dramaturg) let the text flow, with staccato scenes sliding into each other as if they're all part of an endless now - time and space funnelled into a single bleak and deserted playground. . . . There are no easy answers, just cycles of hurt. It seems grimly relevant today, as we demonise or dismiss sections of society for self-reassurance.

Stage

Stephens suggests that there are social factors explaining acts of grotesque cruelty and that the human spirit can never be entirely quashed. . . . It's an unremittingly powerful play

Guardian

a bracing vision of adolescent cruelty

Evening Standard

It's in-yer-face theatre at its grimy best

Exeunt

[A] bracing vision of adolescent cruelty.

Evening Standard