Saved | Critical Overview
The critical reaction to Saved was, for the most part, a slaughter. Irving Wardle of The Times (London) said that ‘‘The most charitable interpretation of the play would be as a counterblast to theatrical fashion, stripping off the glamour to show that cruelty is disgusting and that domestic naturalism is boring. But the writing itself, with its self-admiring jokes and gloating approach to moments of brutality and erotic humiliation does not support this view . . . it amounts to a systematic degradation of the human animal.’’ Herbert Kretzmer of the Daily...
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