Aesop a la Mode
TUNED in recently to 1ZB to pay my respects to Aesop, and at the same time wishing to see how they would conduct the session, which I was hearing for the first time. Aesop has long been a happy hunting-ground for arrangers and adapters. Socrates spent his spare time in prison putting the fables into verse, and now 1ZB is providing short modern plays written around the morals of the fables. "Aesop," said the announcer, "wrote his fables in a form that could be understood even by the simple people of his age, I wonder how he would write them for our sophisticated times.’ But é«s a play that is written about human beings necessarily less naive than a fable that was written about domestic animals? And considering the highly sophisticated plays of Aristophanes, for instance, that were box office successes among the "simple" Greeks, the time to patronise these people is scarcely at the beginning of a little play which was perhaps no worse, but was certainly no better, than the average play heard from 1ZB,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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181Aesop a la Mode New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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