Anna Christie
RIZE for the most inconsistent session to date probably goes to 2YA’s recently-installed Radio Theatre, opem for a full hour on Friday nights. Nod greater contrast can be imagined than between last week’s "Meet the Wife," a trivial and unfunny comedy, at which I remained to scoff, and this week’s "Anna Christie," the strength and beauty of which came over the air unimpaired. It is possible of course that visual memories of stage and screen performances were at hand to add their significance to the spoken word (I can still see the white heavy-lidded face that confronted me whenever Anna’s voice came over the air, but whether Garbo’s or some unknown’s from the local repertory society I don’t know), but this would not account entirely for the extraordinary impressiveness of the whole effect. The unbroken continuity and pace of the radio version may have had something to do with it, or perhaps the particular intimacy that is radio’s long suit when it comes to plays. But probably the reason is merely that Anna Christie as I heard it on Friday night, was an example of a first-rate play interpreted by a first-rate company.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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195Anna Christie New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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