Vale Sandy: The World of Gallipoli Crescent
The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’, ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'
Source: quadrant.org.au