The Guardian's Michael Billington said "it lacks the richness of texture of Leigh's finest work", while the Daily Mail named it "a loveless dirge".
Lesley Manville was said to have been "extraordinary" by the Telegraph's Charles Spencer.
The play, at the Cottesloe Theatre, follows a disintegrating relationship between a daughter and a widowed mother.
"Lesley Manville is extraordinary as the widowed Dorothy, her mask-like poise and carefully applied brightness harrowingly collapsing into incurable anxiety and despair," wrote Spencer, who also praised the "remarkable work" from co-stars Bentall and Sam Kelly.
So, have you been to see this new play? What did you think to it? It just goes to show that no matter how well respected you are, when things are not perfect, you WILL be judged.
