Burke said "I'm very excited about the play and I feel sure viewers will react the same way after they see it on tv.
[7] The critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought the adaptation blundered by not establishing where and when the play was set, saying the director "wasted speculation while a huge cast of strange characters passed before him — too many, in fact, to be accommodated comfortably in such short playing lime."
[8] Another reviewer for the same paper noted the high use of the word "flamin" ("it got a flamin' good workout") while "the other word, which the wowsers took such exception to when the play was first staged in Sydney some 15 years ago, hardly got a look-in."
However he thought "Alan Burke's production was a good, smooth job" and did "draw the pathos from the story.
"[9] The TV critic for The Age said it "came through as a worthwhile piece of Australiana which one should have seen.