Three Days in May

Whatsonstage.com“An efficiently written waistcoat and watch-chain drama...” The play is far less compelling, and far less informative, than last year’s Orange Tree collaboration between Brown and Strachan on The Promise, about the Balfour Declaration and the State of Israel...

Time Out“There is much to admire in Ben Brown's subtle documentary drama...” The politicking is the play's main pleasure. And Neville Chamberlain (Robert Demeger) is its unlikely hero: gravely ill and depressed, he finds the courage to admit that he was wrong...

Financial Times“It’s so undramatic as to be daring...” The play exerts real grip and the acting in Alan Strachan’s production is quietly riveting. Demeger is particularly good as Chamberlain, his mournful, bloodhound countenance speaking volumes, and Warren Clarke is both entertaining and commanding...

The Stage“A slightly stodgy history lesson that’s masquerading as a play...” Brown organises the facts and arguments with skill but not quite enough theatrical impetus. Alan Strachan’s production, played out on a giant map of Europe that covers the walls and floor of the Cabinet War Room, has strong supporting performances.

The Independent“As gripping as it is inspiring...” The play and Alan Strachan's absorbing production (performed on a set that superimposes a map of Europe over the whole proceedings) are a bit clunky...

The Telegraph“Both riveting and moving, even though one knows how it will all pan out...” Jeremy Clyde’s posh, cunning, and glibly fluent Lord Halifax put one disconcertingly in mind of some of today’s top Tories. Nevertheless this is one of those all too rare evenings of theatre that make one feel genuinely proud to be British...

this is london“Smacks a little too much of a history lesson...” It is hardly a dynamic play that Ben Brown has written - or that director Alan Strachan has staged - but a wordy and worthy drama of the "men in suits sitting around a table looking worried" genre...

Guardian“It only partly captures the turbulence of the times...” It's a good play that could be even better, but Alan Strachan directs it with great finesse and Warren Clarke is utterly persuasive as Churchill. He has the right physical weight but avoids the bulldog cliches...