REVIEWS & CRITICISM

'PETER BARNES is one of the greatest geniuses of the English theatre of the past couple decades.' --PLAYS and PLAYERS

PETER BARNES is 'one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain.' --THE TIMES

THE RULING CLASS: 'A scorching and savage tragedy, yet its jokes are innumerable' --SUNDAY TIMES

THE BEWITCHED:'A masterpiece, a work of true genius.' --PLAYS and PLAYERS

RED NOSES: 'A brilliant play...a tremendous life-affirming piece.'--THE GUARDIAN

LEONARDO'S LAST SUPPER and NOONDAY DEMONS: 'Confirm Barnes as one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain' --THE TIMES

LAUGHTER!: 'Reinventing what a play ought to be.'--THE TIMES

SUNSETS AND GLORIES: 'A work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy.'--INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Peter Barnes is one of the most consistently exciting and inventive of contemporary playwrights, a savage satirist and glorious free-booter of past theatrical styles. --JOHN BULL-CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS

THE RULING CLASS - a review by New York critic John Simon

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