‘Marston answers Ibsen's tense, retrograde structure with a perfectly logical time-scheme of her own… Her key ploy is to show cause and effect simultaneously, bringing past and present together…the clammy claustrophobia of this story can be intolerable. Knowing this, Marston brightens a few corners, inserting a gorgeous bread-making scene for the two maid playfully poking their elbows in great lumps of dough (a substance whose sexual suggestiveness is useful)…ravishing duets for the younger maid and Matthew Hart's seal-pup of an Oswald…
Dave Maric's score avidly played by a small ensemble jab(s) through the sticky atmosphere like a knife…video by Peter Anderson compounds the sense of endless Nordic gloom… to everyone's credit the ballet's 70 minutes feel short.’