Dave Drayton, Journalist

What is truly impressive is that Kean and cast have made this motley and unsettling collection of antagonists so riveting to watch.

"It is easily the best play anyone has written in the last forty years, and it may even be..."

“We were sort of frustrated at the time from a lack of interest in our work in terms of galleries and things like that."

“I’ve only been writing for television for the last couple of years; I was amazed at how it all fits together, you know?"

“It was a laugh to begin with, it wasn’t a serious undertaking, we actually started doing blacksploitation covers in the first gig, but it was so successful that we thought well next time we’ll do a collaboration."

"‘Oh, haven’t we moved on? Haven’t we got more civilised than we were in 1971?’And then to go, ‘Well no, we haven’t’."

A cheeky look behind the scenes at the cogs of Belvoir does little to answer these questions.

It's a little dirty, incredibly charming and a tad tongue in cheek and marks McGinlay as one to watch in coming years.

They’ve just embarked on their first European tour and Monstrorum Historia points as to why; this is world class.

It’s a strangely stiff effect, but it works in favour of the thrill.

Ultimately the two most rousing events of the histories, Hal’s reformation and Henry’s death, are lost amongst the comedy, the momentous occurring simply as moments between laughs, lacking impact.

“I guess if I was a teenager it would be like me writing heaps of emo poetry and Penguin calling and saying, ‘Hey we would like to publish it!’”