<p>'A potent study of women, power and patriarchy... Hickson writes with her usual mix of wit, intelligence, empathy and a metallic clarity of thought, interlacing history with anachronism to show how the pressure that women face to attach themselves to a man – or else mark themselves as 'other' – remains little changed'</p>

The Stage

<p>'Clever, funny and indignant... shifts between grimly gleeful anachronism and a historical empathy, to expose the nerve endings of another era... hugely stimulating'</p>

Independent

<p>'A murderously intense drama... there is something of Sarah Kane's stark ferocity to this savage play about Elizabeth I's rise to power... a searing 90 minutes that deals with history you'll probably know, from angles you might not'</p>

Time Out