Our Own Players
AFTER several months of listening to a great number of radio plays, good, bad, and indifferent, one thing becomes obvious-the high standard of our own NBS productions. This was demonstrated in a trifle heard the other Sunday evening from 4YA. Max Afford is one of those who know how to write for radio; he supplies as much "character" as is possible in so short a time, but does not involve his listeners in any of those overcomplicated plots which are more suited to a full-length book. (By the way, surely in this play the author has hit on a new method of murder; I don’t seem to remember reading or hearing of any victim being bumped off by means of a Portuguese man-o’-war dropped through a porthole into his bath aboard a luxury yacht.) The performers were well cast and did not over-act their somewhat lurid roles, and I enjoyed their performance more than many similar ones ’ done by overseas players. One suggestion only — in so many British and American productions we have the entire cast, author, and producer announced before and after the play; why not let us in on the secret of who these excellent players are, in our own NBS pro- | ductions?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 8
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208Our Own Players New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 8
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