VALUING A PLAY’S WORTH
A test he applies in evaluating plays is explained by the great dramatic and literary critic, Mr Desmond MacCarthy in his new book, “Drama.” Mr MacCarty writes: —One of the tests I apply to plays, before recommending or cursing them, is the degi-ee to which I have lost self-consciousness myself, in the theatre. If I have been so riveted that I ceased to know that I was a human being sitting between others, then, whatever on reflection I may think of its “value.” that performance goes straight into my category of good entertainments. The play and actors have passed the great, elementary, fundamental test.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 8
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108VALUING A PLAY’S WORTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 8
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