"[6] In the show, Walker plays a number of characters including her Jewish communist father, arriving as a refugee in New York around 1918, and her Jamaican-born black civil rights activist mother.

[8][9][10][11] Alexei Sayle wrote in The Guardian, "Jackie possesses a lovely singing voice and the honed acting skills of a veteran performer, plus the tragic story of her Jewish civil rights campaigner father and her black Jamaican mother, who was wrongly confined to a mental institution in the US, is worth a show in itself.

[7] Lee Levitt of The Jewish Chronicle said the show is an attempt to "justify the views that have made her a controversial figure" and that the opening of her Edinburgh Fringe performance was "greeted by cheers and a standing ovation".

[2] In the Morning Star, Bernadette Hyland described it as "a story which Walker brings to life using song and readings" and "a shocking and sorrowful narrative as we follow her mother and siblings from the US to Jamaica and finally to Britain".

[1] Camden New Journal said of the play, "Billed as a story of black struggle, racism and Jeremy Corbyn, it mixes politics, humour, drama and song, The Lynching invites the audience-as-jury to hear Jackie’s mother defend her daughter.