What did the critics think of Consent?
News Desk, May 30th, 2018Booking through to August 11
Nina Raine's Consent, which took the National Theatre by storm last year, made it's West End transfer last night at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but what did the critics think?
The Guardian was full of praise for the production saying that Raine's play was a '...bracingly clever, bleakly funny play offers no easy answers to any of its questions: what is justice, what is vengeance, and which is right?' with Time Out calling it an 'awe-inspiringly eloquent play'.
The Times, giving the production five stars, said that 'Nina Raine creates an unforgettably complex, blackly comical and affecting picture of logic...She packs her hotly topical play with as much human life as we've seen on the West End stage for a long time'. The Telegraph rounded up their four-star review with 'The evening, with furnishings rising swiftly, even magically into view, is slick and entertaining when it needs to be, but for every comic touch and quick barb, there's a telling glance and dark hint of sadness'.
