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"Cole has, like Ayckbourn, constructed a work in three acts of cumulative force and seriousness.... Holland’s transformation is in its way as astonishing as Charles Laughton’s transfiguring scene in the original aborted 1936 I Claudius. Holland’s wrenching out of his stroke to hammer down his truth is unnervingly convincing, the man stripped bare of everything but the way his truth works, Lear-like in self-recognition. This is phenomenal acting.
Cole’s extending from one wistfully comic short to a three-act Chekhovian elegy for the dance of age, is in a defining league of its own. A superb play, it will now reach the West End. To say it’s some of the very finest acting I’ve ever seen at the Fringe doesn’t do it justice. . Keep looking out for it.
Simon Jenner, Fringe Review, 28 May 2023
