Floored
TO call a play The Flaw when it is obviously full of them is to arouse the baser detective instincts of one’s audience, and to fob them off with the latter-day explanation that the fact that the unconscious self can act unknown to the conscious self is the flaw in our belief in free-will is tantamount to telling readers of a whodunit that the whole thing was a mistake and the man died from*natural causes. The Flaw (from 2YA on a recent Friday) is one of those ephemeral plays whose plot would vanish into thin air beneath a cold douche of common sense; but the author, realising this, has seen to it that few of the characters have enough \of that commodity to damage the play’s delicate fabric (the heroine, of course, has none at all).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 435, 24 October 1947, Page 17
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137Floored New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 435, 24 October 1947, Page 17
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