'There are no crowds, no violence, and action is confined to a single set–the house of a commander of native infantry. Although some disturbance has taken place in the district before the play opens, it is not in the thick of the uprising, and the house serves as an outpost where there is still leisure for discussion. But discussion is made urgent by the knowledge that attack may at any time be renewed: there is no division between plot and comment on India at large.
'Three groups are represented–Indian troops, British officers and British civilians. Of these, the civilians are the least convincing. One is a fledgling memsahib whose part is limited to voicing obtuse snobbery; the other, an altogether too enlightened Scots girl, acts almost as Mr. MacCormick's raisonneur by stepping outside the action and speaking in glowing terms of Britain's role in India.'
Source:
'B.B.C. Television', The Times, 28 October 1957, p.5.
