This too received mixed reviews. Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
in a handbook on recent British and Irish women dramatists registered its power to grip in performance.
Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 291-00.
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Literary responses
Claire Luckham
English-speaking critics are divided on the play's politics. Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
thought it ideologically somewhat questionable in the way that it combines Brechtian distancing techniques with encouragement for the audience to cheer during the wrestling matches,...
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Texts
Llewellyn-Jones, Margaret. “Claiming a Space: 1969-78”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, 1993, pp. 26-46.
Taylor, Lib. “Early Stages: Women Dramatists 1958-68”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, 1993, pp. 9-25.
Griffiths, Trevor. “Waving not Drowning: The Mainstream, 1979-88”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, 1993, pp. 47-76.