To the eldritch screech of Anne Wood’s fiddle, director Gerry Mulgrew has constructed a dark and eery version of the Queen’s history as seen through the familiar figure of the crow, or corbie, here played chillingly and convincingly by the excellent Myra McFadyen. 
With this production, Liz Lochhead has consolidated her position as one of our more entertaining dramatists, and Communicado has maintained its reputation as an innovative and daring company
Glasgow Herald August 1987

As a piece of theatre, Mary Queen of Scots is hardly perfect yet…..in fact its most important insights are concentrated into a devastating whirlwind of a ten minute finale, which left the first night audience shaken, weak kneed, and cheering themselves hoarse.
But structural hiccups apart, its difficult to overstate the theatrical invention and bravado Gerry Mulgrew and his company bring to Lochhead’s script. Even more importantly, the combination has produced for Scotland a play that blasts Mary’s myths not out of mindless radicalism, but because it has something more important to say about her and about us, about womanhood and the nation
Joyce McMillan, The Guardian August 1987