Cirrus@Austlit

Blewett’s first play Quiet Night is a comedy of hospital life, shown from a nurses’ perspective. It was first produced by Marjorie McLeod for Melbourne’s Little Theatre in March of 1941, and received good reviews. The Age commented that it was 'clever lines and humour in a tragic theme' which categorise the play and noted that Blewett had 'gone to life for her play'. The production itself was deemed 'well presented and mounted' by The Age and The Argus applauded the acting and Blewett’s engagement will the 'practical and psychological aspects' of nurses coping with their jobs.

The play then went on to be produced by, mostly amateur, theatre companies in all of Australia’s major cities throughout the 1940s and into the early 1950s. This is not to say that the play never received any negative publicity; however, any negative comments were generally countered by positive ones. A critical review of the Kuringgai Theatre Guild’s production in 1950, for example, commented that although they considered the play to be 'sometimes naïve and novelettish', Blewett had also developed characters which 'though conventional, shall not be empty imitations of somebody else’s characters'. When reviewing the Theatre’s Associated production at Stow Hall, journalist Harold Minear considered the play to have a weak third act, like many plays, but applauded the actors on their performances and found the production itself to be thoroughly entertaining'.