The performance begins almost imperceptibly, with an extremely slow fade and familiar domestic scene, and the actors address the audience with their stories with such directness, honesty and openness that you feel almost privileged to have such confidence bestowed upon you.

Indeed, the production's greatest asset is its candour and the uniformly stunning cast and sensitive direction is worthy of much praise. The actors show great versatility, playing multiple roles with great success, investing each character with genuineness and avoiding insipid stereotypes. The space is used in a balanced yet dynamic way and movements are truthful and uncontrived.

The 'docu-theatre' genre is successfully exploited by the use of techniques such as narratorial intervention, undefined spaces, theatrical transitions between scenes, and certain chunks of past events being enacted as opposed to simply recounted. The writing is well shaped for the theatre, and the monologues of the witnesses are interlocked vibrantly as well as sensitively, keeping the audience fully engaged: sometimes links between the witnesses' juxtaposed monologues are immediately obvious, sometimes initially obscure; sometimes they emerge gradually, and sometimes they become clear in a sudden flash. Humour also has an important role and is manipulated in a subtle and closely-observed way; it is not used as a barrier to shy away from awkward issues, nor does it trivialize the subject, but just the right dosage is injected at appropriate moments so as to prevent the audience closing up and to allow them to remain engaged throughout the more horrific passages.