"[1] The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre presented William Faulkner's adaptation from the novel (although the Random House edition of the play gives some credit to Ruth Ford in developing the performance script).
The play opened in London on November 27, 1957 with Ruth Ford as Temple and a cast that included Zachary Scott and Bertice Reading.
But the slow flow of dialogue is characteristic of Mr. Faulkner, who listens to a distant drum.” Harold Clurman in The Nation wrote: “It resembles the state of mind Europe was in shortly after the war: since everyone felt tainted in some way, cleansing seemed possible only by an admission of one’s guilt.”[5][6] The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota presented the play as part of its 1982-83 season.
Lawrence Bommer in his Chicago Tribune review wrote: "Faulkner lays on the Southern Gothic-soap operatic trappings-blackmail, drunkenness, child abandonment, adultery.
Greg Cesear's measured staging respects that talk to a fault, treating the creepy revelations with a sedate deliberateness that makes them hard to ignite.