SUNDAY NIGHT PLAY
Sir,-I have just completed gorging myself on an hour of the most scabious, putrescent entertainment I have ever heard, from a New Zealand station. I refer, sir, to.a play from 3YA on Sunday evening. It consisted of the ravings ‘in an acute psychotic episode in which a grossly maladapted, inadequate, impulsive psychopath reveals his progressive deterioration into a world of his own (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) until he becomes a screaming persecuted paranoid. Add the highly improbable, unappreciated, misconceived, misreferred solicitude of a friend and a wife. For ‘one whole hour-my friends were all driven to bed-TI listened te the would-be autoanalysis or conflict between the schizoid ideas: and torn personality of this genius-madman-painter until finally he pulls his scream world in pieces about his ears in a holocaust of mental destruction. At intervals there obtrudes a pastoral touch from the Barden, then a posse of wood gnomes, who chant interminably and dolefully that here there is no joy and no pain, But no, he has not merited death yet. He passes the crisis and lives to a®ripe old age. How? As a purveyor and designer of ornamental gate-posts. One can only say with Harry Tate, "W-o-0-0-ords fail me!"
A. G. N.
BRUCE
(Silverstream Hospital).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 18
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212SUNDAY NIGHT PLAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 18
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