It won first prize in the 1945 Playwrights' Advisory Board competition[4] and was performed in Melbourne, Sydney,[5] Brisbane and Perth.
The problem of reconciling poetry with dramatic tension and the workaday sense of reality is well handled.
The parts are all actable... At one remarkable period there were two productions of Sons of the Morning in Sydney, each with a different last scene, each ending didactic, neither entirely satisfying.
[9] On Crete during World War Two, two Australian soldiers, Anson and David, seek refuge in a Cretan farmhouse occupied by a farmer and his daughter Christina.
A German pilot crashes nearby and is captured but he is freed by Noulos, Christina's betrothed.