'The beauty of Belleville is that while it arrives at a place of horror, which in lesser hands might smack of implausible melodrama, it never slackens its grip on truth... what makes it so disquieting - and accomplished - is that we're witness to the accumulative power of subtle nudges - each eggs the other on, wittingly and unwittingly, towards a primeval forest of fear, hurt and rage'
* Telegraph *
'A psychological thriller dressed up as a sitcom... the tension keeps ratcheting up'
* The Times *
'At times it's hard to watch, but impossible to tear your eyes away... a heart-wrenching, stomach-churning portrayal of a marriage in crisis'
* Radio Times *
'An exacting look at American millennials... an emotionally enervating psychological thriller [in which] Herzog ratchets the tension from homely to horror with real integrity and restraint'
* Whatsonstage.com *
'Riveting... a Hitchcockian study in physical and emotional displacement'
* The Arts Desk *
'Exerts a potboilerish grip on your attention and doesn't let go'
* Time Out *
'A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years'
* New York Times *
'Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself'
* Time *