Dumb Show

However, urged to provide a candid account of his offstage life and views, the Barry that emerges is the least of the surprises in the tense game of power and manipulation that ensues

"There are moments in Joe Penhall's superb new play that had me squirming in my seat with a mixture of embarrassment, pain and guilty recognition ... offers a mesmerising, utterly persuasive account of a classic tabloid sting ... a furious, black-comic satire on the bankrupt values of our tabloid culture" ~ Daily Telegraph

"... a funny, furious tirade against the unlovely practise of entrapment journalism and the agent provocateur journalists who do its dirty work" ~ Guardian