Variety's Matt Trueman praised Escaped Alone, writing that "its juxtaposition of afternoon tea and environmental catastrophe proves particularly potent, not to mention wryly funny."
"[4] Cameron Woodhead of The Sydney Morning Herald dubbed the play "brilliant" despite having reservations about the performance he saw (at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre), and argued, "Three layers of dramatic action emerge.
Light, avoidant surface chat plays over subjective unravelling and personal armageddon, with a black comic buffet of dystopian possibilities erupting from under them.
[5] Jerry Wasserman of the Vancouver Sun praised Escaped Alone as a welcome shift from the realism of much of modern theater and wrote that it is "filled with provocative ideas and entertaining dialogue".
Making a comparison of one line to Monty Python, he said the women engage in "often very funny conversation" and that the work "is as rich in implication as its meanings are oblique.