To pull off those hair-trigger shifts, to layer each character’s personality with a depth that doesn’t readily emerge from Mamet’s words alone...[the] players stretch way beyond their lines so that what they give back to the audience makes their characters imminently credible. . . .

. . .What makes the total effect so memorable is that both Winters and Cohen convince us of the changes in their characters’ attitudes during the second two acts of this 90-minute play. Winters must exhibit John’s confusion and hurt, then ultimately his shock and rage.

-- Providence Phoenix

. . . Winters makes the perfect prof, self-assured, full of himself, and more than a little intense -- until his unfortunate undoing. Then Winters becomes a curious blend of contriteness and rage.   And not since Bob Newhart has there been anyone as skilled on the phone. Winters, who is constantly being interrupted with calls about his real-estate dealings, sputters and stammers into the receiver in staccato sentence fragments. . .

-- Providence Journal