Two Plays
WO radio plays of completely contrasting types, both NZBS productions, were presented by Wellington stations on a recent Wednesday, the first The Man Who Could Make Nightmares, a creepy little offering t almost made you wish he couldn’t, and the second Mr. Broderick Returns, a simple little comedy, and refreshingly terrestrial, in spite of the fact that to the experienced filmgoer the title would suggest something on the lines of Mr. Jordan, The former was more obviously good radio in the sense that a film is good cinema -it made use of the potentialities of its particular medium. It took a fantastic
concept and plugged it till the concept ceased to be fantastic. It built up an atmosphere and sustained it. It provided a climax that was artistically satisfactory and poetically just. Yet when the announcer’s. voice rang down the curtain and normalcy was resumed, nothing of the play was carried over. Mr. Broderick Returns had no particular technical merit and no startlingly originality of plot or treatment, but Miss Janisch had managed to infuse into it a certain warmth, and the fact that its motif, instead of being far-fetched, was more or less just over the back fence waiting to be picked up meant that it could be immediately. assimilated into our emotional make-up.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 23
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217Two Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 23
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