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Douglas Henshall is excellent as Huxley, hot headed, honest and direct, with all the youthful unwillingness to compromise and a centred belief in his own logic. (Curtain Up, London - September 22nd 2004)

The actors in Robert Delamare's androit production seize avidly on Whittel's comedy. As his Bakunin in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia proved, Douglas Henshall has a peerless gift for conveying naive conviction.  His Huxley breathlessly empathising with the heroine of a modern bonkbuster, is earnestly hilarious. ( The Guardian-September 24th 2004)

Indeed Planer's beaming scoutmaster of a Wilberforce becomes absurdly jejune when he talks of Heaven or Noah and the 16,000 animals in the ark, and so he's far to easily shot down by Douglas Henshall's boisterous Huxley. There's wit and humour in the play, as well as a refreshing rare enthusiasm for metaphysical discourse. ( The Times-September 24th 2004)

Douglas Henshall delivers hilariously indignant monologues about the absurdities of faith with the panache of a great stand-up comedian, but finds a moving edge of melancholy too. ( Daily Telegraph-September 24th 2004)

...... upstaged by Douglas Henshall............. His Huxley is a boisterous, bellowing , safari-suited, straw-boatered explorer who seethes at Wilberforce's refusal to admit the superiority of science. ( The Evening Standard- September 23rd 2004)

Despite taking place in the afterlife, the main thrust of Whittel's drama is a polemic against metaphysics.  This is conducted by Douglas Henshall's raging agnostic Huxley, permanently on the brink of bursting a blood vessel. ( The Daily Mail-September 24th)

Oliver Ford Davies is a majestically composed Darwin and Douglas Henshall paints an unforgettably passionate and witty portrait of Huxley. Seriously good. (Ham and High-Piers Eady-28th September 2004)