Reviews & Articles

REVIEWS

 

"..do yourself a favour, go and see it..."

Sarah Churchwell, BBC Newsnight Review, 4 April 2008

 

"...a fine play...it's not just asking religious questions, but human questions...absolutely riveting stuff"

 

Rt Rev Dr Thomas Butler, Bishop of Southwark, in discussion with writer Stephen Adly Guirgis, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 8 April 2008

 

"...a truly epic production...Guirgis and Goold have a sensational hit on their hands"

Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2008

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"**** (4 stars) A gloriously intoxicating brew"

Michael Billington, Guardian, 4 April 2008

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"...genuinely scary Douglas Henshall as witness Satan"

Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 4 April 2008

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"...extraordinary, comic and gripping...surely going to be on the shortlist for Best New Play of the Year"

Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, 6 April 2008

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"...the intensity is terrific...Goold's direction echoes and amplifies the excitement"

Susannah Clapp, The Observer, 6 April 2008

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"**** (4 stars) Joseph Mawle's astonishingly fine Judas electrifies the stage...I cannot recall a young actor whipping up such an intense emotional storm"

Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 4 April 2008

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Critics' Choice: "**** (4 stars) Stephen Adly Guirgis has the gift of the gab...startling and often humorous...superb cast"

Jane Edwardes, Time Out, 10 April 2008

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ARTICLES

 

Douglas Henshall talks about The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Times Online, 25 March 2008

 

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Writer Stephen Adly Guirgis talks to the Daily Telegraph, 22 March 2008

 

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Director Rupert Goold talks to the Society of London Theatre, 2 April 2008

 

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