Direct Inaction
[ONG absence has made ITMA merely a Tomtopian memory to 2YA Saturday nighters, and we have become more or less resigned to exchanging Handley’s direct assaults upon our listening virtue for the less immediate demands made upon it by W. W. Jacobs (NZBS interpretation). On a recent Saturday, the entertainment was still somewhat in the W. W. Jdcobs tradition, and had the great advantage of giving the NZBS cast yet another chance of displaying their neatly appliquéd nautical-on-regional accents, which so far show few signs of wear. The play was Hunger Strike, by H. MeNeish, a prize-winner
in a recent NZBS play-writing compe-tion-understandably so since from the point of view of craftsmanship it is a very sound piece of work. My only quarrel with it is from the viewpoint of programme timing, since it burst upon me at a time when I was well inoculated against sea fever by the NZBS’s frequent foragings in this field. Looking in vain for anything indigenous in Hunger Strike (the idea of having a hunger strike came to the crew via Gandhi, and the play was not intended to throw light upon dark places in New Zealand’s mercantile history) I was almost tempted to feel nostalgia for the good old days when no piece of New Zealand writing was complete without its tui. x
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 10
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222Direct Inaction New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 10
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