Tom Green

I didn't much like Marius von Mayenburg's Ugly One, but The Stone, also at The Royal Court, is superb. Technically brilliant as it shifts between decades on an almost bare stage with no costume changes, and beautifully acted.

Breathtaking.

Billington queries whether it reveals a general truth about Germans seeking to escape their Nazi past (no idea, but even if it doesn't this was the truth about this one fictional family); but then, amazingly, he also found the play hard to follow.

[It appears Charles Spencer -two stars!! - and Benedict Nightingale had similar problems. Blimey. At least some critics were on the ball.]