Arthur & George

Whatsonstage.com“An interesting piece of entertainment...” Modern themes such as discrimination and marginalisation play a major role in the development of the narrative. Arthur and George is a play set within a by-gone time with a modern core...

The Telegraph“Commendably fluid but lacks drama...” Barnes’ achievement was to deliver a meticulously researched period thriller without succumbing to obvious literary mimicry. The show grips at a cerebral level but a crucial quality of dramatic substance is missing...

The Stage“A very intelligent play...” Uncomfortably exposes the overt and underlying racial tensions and prejudices of the Victorian age, the English distaste for “natives” and “half-castes”, police suspicions of “evil in the blood”...

The Times“A story of fabrication of evidence, persecution and racism...” Using reportage, flashbacks, overlapping scenes and the doubling or trebling of actors to show Conan Doyle’s often shrewd, sometimes inept, but always determined Sherlocking...

Guardian“Action supersedes psychological detail...” Adrian Lukis admirably invests Conan Doyle with the impassioned concern for justice he lately brought to the defence counsel in The Winslow Boy, and Chris Nayak plays Edalji with exactly the right tunnel-vision earnestness...

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

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Time Out“Not yet reviewed”

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New Statesman“Not yet reviewed”