“His plots are neither simple and exact, nor, on the other hand, marvels of good carpentry. They are either too weak or too strong, invertebrate or too dependent on situation. But ... we have here three plays in which Brighouse’s keen sense of good stage-humour, and his knack for observing character are applied to a people and a life that he could know honestly at first hand.” K. M.
+ − Freeman 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 650w
“Mr Brighouse’s touch and temper are equally uncertain. In ‘The northerners’ his action is ingenious in the bad and artificial sense, and flares into the noisiest melodrama in the last act. ‘The game’ is a far sounder and less pretentious play than ‘The northerners’; ‘Zack’ is negligible.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 200w
“‘The game’ is, perhaps, a trifle too local, with an appeal to a more specialized audience whose chief interest lies in the fair play of organized sport. It is a relief to discover in the last play, ‘Zack,’ amusement for its own sake.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 580w
“As for ‘Zack,’ it cries out for acting. But the dialogue and the situations go for little in print.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p121 F 19 ’20 900w
“All show a sense of the theatre, good situations, lively talk (and, one might exclaim, ‘What more could you ask, in Heaven’s name?’), but for all this they are at best but commonplace.”
+ − Theatre Arts Magazine 4:350 O ’20 140w