Raucous humour, vivid emotion.
Sunday Times

Shrewd… Entertaining… Often witty.
Metro

Deliciously light and pointed, helped by the scamper of Guy Retallack's direction: anyone who thinks the Globe can't be intimate is yet again proved wrong.
The Observer

Topical… impassioned… eye-catching.
The Guardian

Forceful contemporary resonance.
The Times

Fascinating… both as an examination of one of history’s most iconic and important periods, and as a character study of a man consumed and destroyed by ideal.
Official London Theatre

Maxwell equips himself well, his verse flowing round the dialogue like a clear bubbling stream.
Sunday Telegraph

Retallack does a good job, harnessing oratory, lyricism, chattiness, symbolism and knockabout humour to tell the story.
Sunday Telegraph

Maxwell raises important issues and paradoxes: not least the fact that, in spite of the horror, the French Revolution determined the world in which we live.
Financial Times

The play has a dry wit and the performances are sprightly.
Financial Times

Touching, intelligently drawn… Compelling.
TimeOut ****