World Theatre
Y now most listeners will have had the chance of hearing several plays in the World Theatre series, but I have heard one only-Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, tightly packed into the hour allotted to it. I can think of few plays more difficult to do justice to on the air than this, and it was magnificently done. But what struck me most forcibly was not the technique of broadcasting or presentation that goes to make such a play a success, but the technique of listening. Lovers of drama who are interested by this series, but who give little time to listening as a rule, may well find that radio listening is an art in itself, and one not easily acquired. Even the regular listener may find that productions on such an ambitious scale as the World Theatre series tax his listening capabilities. But if anything can prevent the radio from being a mere soporific background, this is the sort of programme that will.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 9
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164World Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 9
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