Good Play
HE play by Margaret Lang, "No Re- ; Becoming,’ was heard from 4YA lately, and I thought it one of the best the NZBS has produced. It would have been far too easy to let this play be
spoiled by too eager insistence on the oriental atmosphere; | even wrongly-.| chosen music would have wrecked such a fragile barque with its ethereal cargo of fantasy, dreamimages, and Taoist and Buddhist ph lo-, sophy. That it suc-
ceeded so admirably in capturing the imagination of the listener was due first to the wrter, who has handled her material with great delicacy, and second to skilful casting, especially in the character of Prince Chun (I have spelt him as he sounds, and have probably got the name quite wrong). The player was evidently the one I remarked upon in "Mazil," and the Chinese play gave him mater al better suited to his talent. Evidently the Chinese is’ not the only source of this particular folk-tale, which can also be found, in but slightly different form, in Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese folktales, where it is called "The Dream of , Akinosuke."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 10
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186Good Play New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 10
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