SOURCE: "Backwoodsman," in New Statesman, Vol. 76, No. 1969, December 6, 1968, pp. 812-13.

In the following brief review of Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton, Nightingale points out Potter's lack of "critical astringency" while appreciating his daring.

Dennis Potter has adapted his Barton plays from television to the stage under the title of the second and better of them, Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton—or, rather, he has shuffled them together like two decks of cards. There are scenes within scenes, flashbacks from flashbacks from flashbacks, and great must be the bustle among the shifters and carriers in the wings of the Theatre Royal, Bristol, where the piece opened last week. Back we go from a rural by-election, to Oxford, to the pit village where Nigel was born and bred, to and fro, back and forth, and all through the eyes and under the guidance of a Labour agent, played...