Sun and Shadow is a 1870 Australian stage play by Walter Cooper.
"[3] The Herald said "it can only be pronounced as a mass of incongruities; in fact, "a thing of shreds and patches."
"[4] Evening News said "The drama itself must certainly, judging from the lavish applause with which it was greeted, be considered an unqualified success.
As a literary work of art it is an exceedingly commendable production ; the characters are boldly and graphically sketched, and the dialogue lively and well pointed.
Perhaps the principal defect of the latter is a trifling redundancy of colonial colloquialisms of the class most affected by bushmen and diggers, such as 'My colonial oath,' &c.; and the drama would, technically speaking, play much 'closer' for a judicious curtailment of the first and second acts.