[1] Director George Ogilvie discussed the play with Seymour in London then went to Perth to direct it.
[2] The Bulletin called it "basically a good play, attractively fashioned in an untidy way.
According to Leslie Rees, critics of the play had many of the same comments: Lack of basic dramatic tension, reluctance of the scenes to hang together, an irritating self-consciousness of tone.
At the same time they praised the author’s undoubted mastery of very natural and humorous dialogue, and some of the more earthy characterization.
But the apparent purposelessness of existence, the loneliness of human beings, the mediocrity of life in general seemed to corrode the author’s spirit, without inspiring him to an adequate construction for the theatre.