Reacting to the reviews, Ian Herbert in "Theatre Record" wrote that there was “a most encouraging set of disagreements” amongst critics regarding "The Pitchfork Disney". He then went on to defend the play citing it as “a very important debut”, compared Ridley's writing favourably to Harold Pinter's and added that Ridley was a writer to watch out for: “he has a little to learn yet about dramatic structure and all the boring rules, but he can already create astonishingly original characters and give them lines that hold an audience spellbound.”