Sufficient Beauty
OT all listeners may agree with the leit-motif of the play by C. Gordon Glover heard from 2YA the other Saturday, that "man is set upon the earth to seek and find his sufficient beauty." But I think that most listeners will agree that by producing plays of this type the NBS is helping man to find his sufficient beauty. Listening to the play I decided that broadcasting is the ideal medium for poetic drama, particularly for the drama of fantasy. For the voices that speak in dreams sound oddly material in the theatre even if muffled behind the wings of the proscenium arch, and the faint whisperings of conscience or desire must take on less disembodied form if they are to be heard in the back row of the gallery. Moreover, in. spite of the greater distance (in both time and space) between cast and audience in a radio drama the intimacy of radio listening allows the hero’s soul to be bared with less embarrassment to both parties. Sufficient Beauty had its moments of banality, but they were more than compensated for by the freshness of the language ("the pale green dusk of an untutored dream," "the dancing of | fiddles and strutting of drums") and the technical brilliance of the play’s ‘ composition. }
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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215Sufficient Beauty New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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