The author did not know when whimsy should evaporate and the sharp realism of a substantial human situation should take its place.
[8]According to academic Peter Fitzpatrick, the play "is full of deliberate confusions, its people practised in complex deceptions and self-deceptions.
This imposes quite a strain on a plot that sometimes seems a rather gratuitous attempt to knock the sprawling material into some sort of shape.
[10] A party is being held at a flat in an apartment block in Kings Cross, Sydney, inhabited by a young couple, Jack and Moira.
Guests to their party include their friend Alex, a radio writer; Bert, a bookie; Marina, a young woman in love with Alex; Tanya, a woman brought by Bert; Peg, the landlady; Lorna and Sylvie, two friends.