[6] The Sydney Morning Herald declared "As a melodrama "Cooee" is far ahead of many more ambitiously-staged productions, but it is reminiscent of some of them.
"[7] The Sydney Sportsman said the play "possesses many of the good points of kindred productions, and few of their bad ones, and was voted a complete success by the intensely interested audience.
"[9] Another review said "his play chiefly fails through its dramatic pudding being so full of sensational plums that each is passed over too quickly to be appreciated by the palate.
If two or three speeches were abbreviated, some of the incidents eliminated, and the remainder more fully developed and properly led up to, this would be a very effective play.
Seymour forces Eva's father to consent to marriage with his daughter until stopped by Bailey with the assistance of a faithful black, Nardoo.