The play's first director, Howard Davies
, found it difficult to believe that such a rude play could have been written by a middle-aged mother of four.
Gardner, Lyn. “Obituaries. Pam Gems”. The Guardian, 17 May 2011, p. 34.
Worth, Katharine. “Images of Women in Modern English Theater”. Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights, edited by Enoch Brater, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-24.