Electric...riveting from beginning to end...Icke has done an astonishing job...An old play is masterfully analysed and made newly devastating.
--Guardian

Stunning...Icke brilliantly remakes Sophocles' profoundly disturbing tragedy for our times.
--Financial Times

Wrenchingly tense...Icke invokes a sense of the past in a vivid contemporary milieu...an extraordinary evening...this show is mother****in' good'.
--Evening Standard

Riveting...a slew of smart ironies, with the mother of all twists...tragedy at its best.
--Sunday Times

Lethal but compassionate... defiantly humane...a singularity of purpose that distils a famously lurid story into something empathetic, lucid and quite, quite devastating.
--Time Out

Stunning...razor-sharp and contemporary...a blinding theatrical experience that remains seared on the retina.
--Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor

Electric...there will surely not be a more powerful production in the UK this year...a play for today.
--Observer

Devastating...Icke ratchets up enough tension to cause gasps...he knows exactly how to create a realistic, involving drama while allowing the prefiguring dramatic irony of the language to foreshadow events. The result is as gripping as a thriller, yet weighted with the terrible sense of what might have been...a modern reminder of the power of Greek tragedy to lay bare all the grief of the human soul.
--WhatsOnStage

Stylish and shattering...Icke's reworking is bold and affecting...The piece has a cumulative power that builds gradually until the atmosphere is riveting, suffocating and unbearably tense.
--The Stage

A tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy...Icke's brilliant reimagining achieves the monumental feat of taking a Greek drama where (almost) everyone thinks they know what's going to happen, and turning it into an exercise in tension, one that etches its message with the painful efficiency of a tattoo gun...he makes it impossible to look away, even for a moment.
--Independent

Startling...Icke's profound connection with the Greeks is once again made gloriously evident.
--iNews

A devastating, seamless update of Sophocles...achieves a level of catharsis rare for any production of an ancient text.
--New Statesman