Many male reviewers were hostile. John Peter
, who wrote in the Sunday Times that the play was a naïve, puritanical, simpleminded entertainment for naïve, puritanical, simpleminded feminists, was an extreme version of a view...
Literary responses
Louise Page
Among reviewers, Irving Wardle
and John Peter
sounded equally grudging, though the first accused the play of being almost didactic and the second seemed to accuse it of being not didactic enough, in refusing to...
