An extraordinary piece impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys. What's On Stage (5 stars)
A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history and a fitting way to celebrate [the play's] 100th anniversary. The Good Review
In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Doll's House and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual double standard' Telegraph
Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women? Guardian
Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys. What's On Stage (5 stars)
Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful. Time Out (London)
An extraordinary piece impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys. Whats On Stage (5 stars)
A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history and a fitting way to celebrate [the plays] 100th anniversary. The Good Review
In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Dolls House and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual double standard Telegraph
Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women? Guardian
Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys. Whats On Stage (5 stars)
Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful. Time Out (London)
