Edinburgh Reviews

Commended - The Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award

The Scotsman  
"An aggressive and bold telling of a truly terrible story. Jigsaw-like, it assembles itself over the hour, the double plots playing out in painfully redolent parallel. Emma Forster plays Nikolina with harrowing, pin-point accuracy."
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Three Weeks  
"Beautifully crafted…tremendously slick…deliciously controversial, this play shies away from nothing. Not for the faint-hearted, but for the huge-hearted."
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The List  
"This is a welcome return for nabokov theatre and writer Van Badham, a team brave enough to strip an uncomfortable subject down to its uncomfortable reality…intelligently aggressive and caustically witty stuff."
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The Stage
"Van Badham's play is dramaturgically faultless, featuring skilful stark flashbacks into Krajina's warscape and flash-forwards into flash Sheffield apartments. Director James Grieve deals with this structure through neat yet eloquent scene changes on takis' noticeably effective set, and accompanied by Lee Wilson's authentic soundtrack."
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Metro  
"Van Badham has packed plenty into this small but deftly executed play."
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Fringe Report
"Layers of complex emotions are sympathetically constructed by a group of exceptional actors. A superbly crafted play, and utterly compelling."
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Culture Wars
"Nikolina succeeds in taking Badham's finger-on-the-pulse approach to political theatre to a new level of sophistication with its exploration of the various ways in which individual agency is compromised and undermined. The interweaving plot-lines are carried well by the cast, and Emma Forster is particularly impressive in the title role."
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Time Out  Preview - Festival Highlights
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