“The comedy is divine, but the images of love and loss are achingly human.” *****

“As everything begins to go terribly, cosmically wrong, we realise that while the fictional Duke has been playing the fool, the real Duke has executed a deft conjuring trick, presenting us in words and movement of increasing darkness with the essence of Milton’s poem.”

A heavenly new take on Milton. *****

“This is so flawed, funny and oddly noble a portrait of God, that the most hard-hearted atheist may find him hard to resist.” ****