“There is considerable risk in placing your audience in a sustained position of uneasiness. In the case of Redemption, this deliberate slow stretching of tension is superbly executed and with it comes a foreboding feeling which sea-saws within you throughout. You will find yourself positioned just like the two characters, in this turbulent Ocean between two horizons, the one behind them and the one before you. It is a brave and difficult mechanism to employ successfully and it works here with absolute conviction. This is not simply a play about religion or its institutionalised crimes. This is a commanding illustration of a corrosive relationship between two men on the cusp of the power shifting hands. We only get sixty minutes in the room with these characters, yet the potency of the writing and the depth of the performances allow us to experience the density of their relationship over the last 20 years. The real clout of the piece is not in the explicit or anticipated confessional exchanges between the two men or in the thorny nature of the subject on trial. The most illuminating, shivering and compelling moments occur beneath a roundabout of seemingly innocuous and familiar jousting. Redemption is that rare kind of show that gets right into the pit of your stomach and churns. Provoking you to examine those vulnerabilities within yourself which render you exposed and in turn, the influential and even endearing characters we all too readily forgive for exploiting such open-handedness.”