'Gaspingly intense... Machinal remains pretty extraordinary stuff... [Treadwell's] spare, percussive language frequently feels like it could have been written yesterday'
* Time Out *
'A dazzling piece of work... Machinal, written in 1928, has lost none of its cold fury, its expressionistic power to depict a woman trapped by a society that expects her to marry and conform. It is astonishingly modern'
* WhatsOnStage *
'An unforgettable portrait of a particular woman and of America itself as a hellishly dehumanised assembly line'
* Guardian *
'Feels strikingly modern: its sharp, splintered depiction of a young woman breaking apart in a dehumanising, mechanised world could have been written yesterday... an eloquent and groundbreaking play'
* Financial Times *
'Machinal was decades ahead of its time and still feels astonishingly, and depressingly, pertinent'
* Radio Times *
'Captivating, intense and resonant... a fascinating piece, a formally bold and explicitly feminist study of an ordinary woman who snaps under societal pressure... demonstrates Treadwell's adventurousness as a playwright'
* The Stage *
'Gripping... doesn't loosen its hold on the senses until its shattering climax'
* Independent *
'Stingingly fresh and provocative'
* Time Out New York *
'[A work of] rare and disturbing beauty'
* New York Times *
