Eternal Night

The cast consists of three men — Donkin (Barrie Cookson) and Aaronson (Gordon Glen wright), weather observers, and a paranoiac, illiterate roustabout Matty (Ron Whelan).

When his drunkenness is blamed for the party not being able to board the relief ship for Melbourne, his insanity and class hatred combine to make him a murderer.

"[7] The Daily Telegraph wrote that Workman had "pulled no punches in providing a brutal plot and the play's three equally violent characters.

"[10] The Sydney Morning Herald called the play "shrill, raw, and vehement, overstated and overlong, unhelped by the absence of relaxed and gentle moods, so that the unrelenting violence of the wrangling becomes a little palting at times - but, for all that, Mr Workman keeps shrewd control of his suspense, and draws three very formidable characters despite the way all of them occasionally lapse into uncharacteristic talk.

"[11] The Daily Mirror felt the play "was weighted down with action and violence, and the dialogue rarely got above the level of the average radio commercial serial.