Does evil expire? To which extent is it useful to hold on to the past? Can people truly change?

These are questions that No More Lies grapples with. The setup of the play is well done, with a villain escaping from the Doctor and Lucie only to rebuild his life while the TARDIS crew is still catching up. And when they do catch up, it turns out to be at a garden party.

The play uses in medias res very effectively, contrasting the ongoing garden party with the hectic events in the spaceship in a way that begs the question what these settings have to do with each other. It also enables the listener to judge the villain's new outlook for themselves, by not showing what kind of evil the villain was up to before, which I thought to be very interesting.

Eventually, as 8 and Lucie show up, the play starts to resolve itself and the mystery, sometimes a bit quickly for my liking. The plot with the time loop is great and the real heart of the play, and the Vortex enemies are a credible threat, though a bit too focused upon.

Sadly, the play doesn't really resolve the entire situation, with Lucie getting kidnapped at the end, but it does explore the above questions enough that I enjoyed the play quite a lot.