[6] Sydney Morning Herald gave the production a mixed review, saying: If it did little else...[the play] showed that some, extraordinarily strong things can happen, in an Erskineville cafe.

Stock characters include the proprietor, a kind of fatherly confessor; a sweet and trusting 16-year-old girl; a society girl with alt attitude; her rather vacuous boy friend; 3 reminiscing middle-aged man —they are all there.

The drama in the story hinges on the 16-year-old girl's brother who appears in the cafe owner's living-room badly hurt after being in a taxi which has crashed, killing tin driver.

The outstanding value of the play lies in its close and warm observation of brother-sister dependence; and fortunately the actors concerned were well able to suggest the beautiful locking of affection between the two.

Christopher Muir's production was careful, and Cass van Puffelen's sets could hardly have been bettered—although the deliberate tilting of three wall objects in the proprietor's living-room was a fastidious and unwelcome touch.