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- ↑ One of the funniest, touching, most excruciating plays of seduction, The Daily Telegraph, 15 October 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2018
- ↑ "Beginning review: Magnificent two-hander about metropolitan loneliness". 30 November 2017.
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