“The mythic character Penelope has come down to us as a byword for chastity and faithfulness in marriage having managed to put off by various stratagems the hundred odd suitors who pitched up on Ithaca, Odysseus having told her to remarry if he had not returned by the time Telemachus had grown a beard . . . The result is everything you could want from a one woman, one act play, which entertains as much as it provokes thought. By any measure that is a result to be proud of.”

” . . . The acting is as sharp as the dialogue, with the two central characters, played with relish by a peart Gemma Whelan and Sean Michael Verey, being given enough fleshly form to avoid being mere ciphers for ideas. Their innocent depravity, unchecked since hatched in a loving and supportive relationship is a joy to see. The party scene with a streetfull. of guests is the work of half an hour packed into five minutes by two virtuoso performances. . . “