Snapping-point tension is frequently dissolved by brilliant comedy...the script so spiky you feel you’ve been caught in a barbed-wire fence...a gathering sense of unease...the playwright’s uncanny ability to make you feel like a furtive eavesdropper on private anguish...the squirming horror of overheard conversations… Uncomfortable? Very. Good? Lethally so.
SCARBOROUGH EVENING NEWS
 

This is dark comedy, not so much of discomfort but of embarrassment, and you could watch through a grill of fingers hiding your face. Everyone, audience and fine cast alike, emerges punch-drunk from the pulverising, unforgiving dialogue and the high-farce finale does not leaven the pain of what has gone before. Betts is mad at the world, its materialism and shallow fashions, and while it is equally hard to love his brittle, bashing play, it just might push you over the edge into craving an alternative life. Job done.
YORKSHIRE PRESS
 

Playwright Torben Betts has been called everything from the next Alan Ayckbourn to the new Howard Barker. Yet his fifth play for the Stephen Joseph Theatre owes a considerable debt to the current Mike Leigh. As with Leigh, Betts's principal subject is the toe-curling awkwardness inspired by social embarrassment and personal failure…a toxic combination...commendably committed.
GUARDIAN
 

Reunions should be avoided at all costs, but this one makes good theatre...excellent, clear, to the point…well-plotted…
Nice evening at the theatre, make an effort to see this play.
BA ONLINE THEATRE REVIEW
 

Torben Betts is one of the most exciting theatre writing talents I have come across in many a year.
ALAN AYCKBOURN