Ayckbourn both celebrates and joshes the flat silliness and dim amiability of a stale middle-class England. His plays are presumed to have a special satiric bite but I find little sting in them. He is a most adept craftsman, very English in his balance between sly derision and a sort of bored compassion. In [Bedroom Farce], the second act, though still replete with laughs, grows a bit tiresome since everything has been said in the first. It nevertheless remains, especially for the English, a jolly good evening in the theater.

Harold Clurman, "Theater: 'Bedroom Farce'," in The Nation (copyright 1979 The Nation Associates, Inc.), Vol. 228, No. 15, April 21, 1979, p. 446.