 Dwight Macdonald, in "The New York Review of Books", called it "the funniest, toughest-minded most ingenious political satire I've read in years…" Robert Brustein wrote that "Although this play is bound to start a storm of protest (not all of it unjustified) and may even be suppressed by some government agency, it will probably go down as one of the brutally provocative works in the American theater as well as one of the most grimly amusing," and praised Garson as "an extraordinarily gifted parodist.