 While Michael Billington of "The Guardian" felt that "while Butler makes clear the irony of conscripted converts to Protestantism helping to oppress the local Catholics, he clouds the action with cloudy symbolism", admitting, however, that he "was left to enjoy the handful of scenes that really work".Rebecca Omonira, writing for "IndieLondon", however, commented that the "enigmatic play had me – and the rest of the audience – enthralled from start to finish", praising it as "a graphic depiction of the worst of humanity" which "relentlessly shows how ordinary people become complicit conspirators in torture and rape.