When he watches the march on television at home with his mother and Wacka, he is torn between outrage at the display and love for his father.
In 1961 Seymour travelled to London where the play was directed by Raymond Menmuir at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
[6][7][8] The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald said the shortened adaptation "suffered much less than might have been expected in its transfer" to television, saying it "sometimes tended to focus more sharply the growing and bitter awareness of the increasing estrangement between an ill-educated, soured lift-driver and his university student son.
"[9] The TV critic for The Age said the "subject of this play overshadow the acting and the sets, giving the production a sleek look that it did not entirely merit.
"[10] Frank Roberts, reviewing the TV adaptation in The Bulletin in 1962, called the play "bloody awful".