Written On The Heart

The Stage“O ye of little faith...” Nobody ever said it was going to be easy. But David Edgar’s new play about the final literary and doctrinal arguments surrounding the publication of the King James Bible in 1611 comes as close as you could imagine to making the subject compelling..

The Telegraph“This is a play in which you need to do your prep...” Though the director, Gregory Doran, has come up with a brisk production, he cannot disguise the fact that the play is dry and verbose, and I fear its analysis of the English Reformation will seem arcane and irrelevant to many...

this is london“Too much here to squeeze into one play...” Edgar skilfully suggests the speech of older times without resorting to the archaic but Gregory Doran's production is weighed down by numerous blokes in cloaks spouting fact-stuffed sentences at each other...

Guardian“Edgar has acquired a new eloquence...” Gregory Doran's production immerses us in the period with enormous pictorial bravura and provides a framework for two hugely impressive performances. Oliver Ford Davies makes a memorably troubled Andrewes...

Whatsonstage.com“ A very impressive piece of work...” What impresses most about the piece is the way that the human stories of the contributors, their motivations and desires are interwoven into a play that explores the power of language to both control and set free the individual...