Sun and Shadow (play)

Sun and Shadow is a 1870 Australian stage play by Walter Cooper.
The Age said "the drama met with a most enthusiastic reception."
The Herald said "it can only be pronounced as a mass of incongruities; in fact, "a thing of shreds and patches." As a dramatic work it is not likely to add to tho fame of the author."
Evening News said "The drama itself must certainly, judging from the lavish applause with which it was greeted, be considered an unqualified success. As a literary work of art it is an exceedingly commendable production; the characters are boldly and graphically sketched, and the dialogue lively and well pointed. Perhaps the principal defect of the latter is a trifling redundancy of colonial colloquialisms of the class most affected by bushmen and diggers, such as 'My colonial oath,' &c.; and the drama would, technically speaking, play much 'closer' for a judicious curtailment of the first and second acts. As a piece of the sensational school, it is decidedly inferior to none."
The original production involved a court action.