The stage consists of a semi-circle of opaque glass panels with two doorways affording the views of a neutral backcloth... This antiseptic setting stands in ironic contrast to both the form and content of the play.

Act and Scene
Credit
Irving Wardle, The Times
Date
1978
Copyright
©

For the scenes in Egypt, however, supernumeraries rush on with piles of scatter cushions, and gold encrusted slaves stand decorously beneath a canopy.

Act and Scene
Credit
John Barber, Daily Telegraph
Date
1972
Copyright
©

...three semi-transparent mirrors, opening on to the outside world but also throwing back the reflection of the viewer. It is an apt image for the narcissistic protagonists, in whose company the division between self and environment breaks down.

Act and Scene
Credit
Irving Wardle, The Sunday Telegraph
Date
1999
Copyright
©

(The designer's) setting is of the simplest, relying a great deal on curtains and hangings dropped from the flies.

Act and Scene
Credit
The Stage
Date
1953
Copyright
©

His designer ... has come up with a marvellous structure of sliding, russet-hued stones the evokes both Alexandria and Rome. Scene melts filmically into scene...

Act and Scene
Credit
Michael Billington, The Guardian
Date
1992
Copyright
©

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