'This play is unashamedly autobiographical. He attempts no subterfuge, and, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, it is a 'play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood'. He draws his drug addicted mother, his close-fisted father, his drunken and degenerate elder brother, and his tormented self with a terrifying veracity which must have needed al the courage, self-analysis, dissection and detachment of a man at death's door'. - The Times