SOURCE: Kingston, Jeremy. A review of The Winslow Boy. The Times London (18 June 2001): 12.

In the following favorable review of the 2001 production of The Winslow Boy, Kingston commends the play as well-crafted and thrilling.

Rattigan's finest full-length work has all the qualities that gave the well-made play a good name. Well-made plays went out of fashion, not least because few writers could do them as well as Rattigan, but also because their formal “completeness” came to seem unreal in a world where few experiences end neatly. But neat endings are the stuff of thrillers, and whatever else it is, The Winslow Boy is also a gripping thriller of a peculiarly rare kind: a courtroom drama without an on-stage courtroom. The story is based on the true struggle of Martin Archer-Shee to clear the name of his son, a 13-year-old cadet at Osborne Naval College, of the charge that he...