Midsummer Night
SHAKESPEAREAN noises came over " 3ZB the other bleak night, the sound of Ngaio Marsh and. the Canterbury College Drama Society (of Dominion fame) advertising their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a short programme of excerpts. The feature took the. form of a summary of.and commentary on the play, by Miss Marsh, the -players chiming in with speeches, songs, didlogue$ or even individual ljnes, as the course of the summary dictated. Thus Miss Marsh would mention Hermia and the bleak voice of Helena would cut in on mid-sentence saying: "Who was a vixen when she went to school." The programme was ingeniously designed to whet the public appetite; a ferocious quarrel between the four lovers-really, even by romantic standards, how peculiarly dim-broke off in the midst of the full crescendo for four voices, and as the sparks grew pale Miss Marsh’s voice was heard mildly talking about something else. The music, as is usual in these productions, was specially composed by Douglas Lilburn and to one ignorant ear sounded good.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 320, 10 August 1945, Page 8
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173Midsummer Night New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 320, 10 August 1945, Page 8
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