"THE TROJAN WOMEN"
Sir,-I am wondering exactly what was the matter with the recording and reproduction of this play. It happens that I am fairly familiar with The Trojan Women and in anticipation of a treat I went to the trouble of mugging it up again both in the original and in the Everyman translation. However, when the appointed hour arrived, reproduction was extremely poor, and the voices almost inaudible on account both of their faintness and of a ringing kind of echo as though the performance was being given in a cavern. One knows that at any rate the enunciation of Sybil Thorndike is faultless, so that the cast cannot be held to blame. Anyone who heard her Medea here in New Zealand 13 or 14 years ago remembers her deep but clear tones, and must have been deeply disappointed with the almost inaudible Hecuba. If the dramatic efforts of Dad and Dave or Tommy Handley were put over in a similar fashion they would be out of business within a month. It is hardly likely that the NZBS is to blame; more probably the recordings themselves were technically imperfect. In any event the disappointment was unfortunate, since the opportunities of seeing-or hearing any of the Euripidean tragedies performed in this part of the world are few indeed. Am I over-critical, or did others experience similar difficulty in following
the broadcast?
H.W.
YOUREN
(Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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235"THE TROJAN WOMEN" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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