AustLit

'SET in the dinginess of a dilapidated mansion, edged by a swamp of unusual proportions and inhabited by two middle-aged sisters, Theatre 60's production "Swamp Creatures" abounds in malevolent atmosphere. Allan Seymour [sic] has written a play with three predominant themes: the merits of either living in the country or in the city; the pitfalls Pitfalls or of a scientific approach to life and the power of ab-reactions as a means to supporting, in hermit-like conditions, the crushing force of past happy memories. To interweave these notions, the author has brought together two sisters, one hard, unyielding, domineering and obsessed with the life her body has not created and, the other, younger, kind, bending to the will of her sister, and anxious that her illegitimate son shall reap the full cup of happiness in normal marriage. The son, a tormented creature, arrives on the scene when the elder sister's experiments in mutation are coming to a frightful conclusion, and assists at his mother's and aunt's "party", peopled by those imaginary beings who have formed their background, and who have caused their present despair.'

(Source: 'Swamp Creatures', Le Courrier Australien, 23 September 1960, p.5.)