"PEER GYNT"
Sir -It is surprising that your reviewer should complain because Peer Gynt was not wholly a university production. Perhaps when there are chairs of drama in the colleges an entirely student production as big as Peer Gynt will be possible. It isn’t yet. It is fitting that university students should take the lead in presenting classical drama to the public. C.U.C.’s performances of Hamlet and Othello and A.U.C.’s of Peer Gynt have been much more acceptable (to judge by packed houses) than other amateur attempts in recent years at drama of this class. They show that in this respect university colleges are capable of being the focal points of New Zealand
culture, where everyone intefested in productions like these can work together. It is well known that productions in the university theatres at Oxford and at Cambridge are not entirely the work of students, as different eminent guest actors are invited to take the lead for a season, and stage technicians are employed. In any case all the "outsiders" in Peer Gynt have been. previously associated with the university in other ways. The players, with .one exception, are present students. So ate the stage manager and wardrobe mistréss; and the sets and costumes were designed by a
recent graduate.-
D. A.
SPENCE
for
A.U.C.. Dramatic Committee.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 374, 23 August 1946, Page 5
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